Associate Professor (Retired), Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University.
She acquired her degrees in social work (BSW) and in public health (MPH and PhD) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She worked as a social worker and Deputy Director for Research at the Hadassah Department of Social Work (1974-1995), and as a teacher and lecturer at the Hebrew University – Hadassah Braun School of Public Health (1989-2008). She was a faculty member at the Louis and Gabi School of Social of Social Work (2000-2014) and over the years a visiting professor at the University of California in San Francisco, Melbourne University and Warwick University.
She has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on topics in her research interests in coping and adjustment to illness, health inequalities and social work in health care. She collaborated in projects on HIV prevention and health promotion.
Since 2017, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Society and Welfare: Quarterly for Social Work (in Hebrew).
She is a member of the management board of the Israel Association of Social Welfare – ESPANet-Israel and was the Chairwomen 2014-2018.
She serves on academic advisory committees at the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services.