Ph.D. Health Sciences – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Deputy Secretary General of the World Organization for the History of Medicine.
Key Research Areas: History of Medical and Health Services in Israel, Politics and Health, Health in the Rise, Health Insurance Law, The Development of the General Health Fund.
Books:
Shvarts Shifra, “General Health Fund, 1911-1937”, Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute Press, Sde Boker, 1997.
Shvarts Shifra, “Health Fund, Government Association,” Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute, Sde Boker, 2000.
Shachori-Robin Zippora, Shifra Shvarts, “Hadassah for the Health of the People,” Zionist Library Publishing, Jerusalem 2003.
Doron Haim, Shvarts Shifra, “Community Medicine,” Ben-Gurion University Press, 2004.
Shvarts S., “Health and Zionism”, The  University of Rochester NY and Boydell & Brewer Press, UK, 2008.
Shachori-Robin Zippora, Shvarts Shifra, “Alexandra Belkind, Sephora of a Breakthrough Hebrew Doctor,” published by Mehuri, 2012.
Haim Doron, Shvarts Shifra, Shlomo Winker, “Family Medicine in Israel”, Ben-Gurion University Press in the Negev, 2014.
Jotkowitz A., Shvarts S., (eds,) “Autonomy, Altruism and Authority in Medical Ethics: Essays in Honor of Professor Shimon Glick”, Nova Science Publishers Inc. NY, 2015.
Alan Jutokowitz, Shifra Shvarts  (eds.) “Autonomy, Altruism, and Authority in Medical Ethics” Ben-Gurion University Library of the Negev, 2016.
Shalev Stoller Lis, Shifra Shvarts, Mordechai Shani, “To Be a Healthy People in Our Country,” Ben-Gurion University Book Review 2016
Shifra Shvarts, Sigal Sadecki (eds) Cutting, Medical and Social Historical Aspects of the Treatment of Disease, Ben-Gurion University Press in the Negev, 2018.

shvarts@bgumail.bgu.ac.il