Improving global prehospital and emergency medicine, public health, and disaster health care and preparedness

Odeya Cohen

Posted by: Andrew Lavelle; 29 July 2019; 1:38 pm

Dr. Odeya Cohen is the Head of the Master’s Program in Emergency Medicine, School of Public Health and a Lecturer in the Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her expertise is in the field of emergency preparedness and response, disaster nursing, community resilience, and research methods.

She has collaborated with international experts in order to reveal factors that may assist individuals, communities, and organizations to better cope with crises. In addition, she focuses on the involvement of advanced methods in educational projects to increase efficiency and capacity building.