Dr. Ora Paltiel trained and worked in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 1992 she moved with her family to Jerusalem, where she has served as Attending Physician in the Hematology Department at Hadassah and a teacher and investigator at the Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine of Hebrew University/Hadassah, reaching the rank of Full Professor in 2013.

While maintaining her clinical, teaching and research commitments Dr. Paltiel has held various leadership roles including as Director of Hadassah’s Center for Research in Clinical Epidemiology, heading the Braun School’s International Masters Program, and recently as the School’s Director. Under her guidance, the School recently passed a comprehensive evaluation initiated by Israel’s Council of Higher Education with accolades.

Dr. Paltiel’s research focuses on cancer epidemiology, quality of care and the environment. She leads a large epidemiologic study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among Israelis and Palestinians. She is a collaborator in the Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort study, the Directorate of Israel’s Quality Indicators Program in Community Healthcare, and international cancer research consortia. As a member of the Hebrew University Centre of Excellence on Environment, Agriculture and Health she performed innovative research on human exposure to produce irrigated with recycled waste-water, which was awarded the 2018 Strage-BGU Award for Excellence in Environmental Sciences (with B. Chefetz).

With colleagues in the Braun School, she leads a project funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, which aims to forge Community-Academic Partnerships with stakeholders involved in health promotion, to reduce health disparities among Jerusalem’s residents.

As an educator, Dr. Paltiel has exposed thousands of medical students to epidemiology and critical appraisal of the medical literature. She has mentored scores of MD, Masters, and Ph.D. students, from Israel and many countries across the globe. In 2018, she won the Hebrew University’s Rector’s prize for excellence in research and teaching.