Prof. Diane Levin-Zamir

Professor Levin-Zamir is Director of the National Department of Health Education and Promotion of Clalit, Israel’s largest health service organization, and Professor of Health Promotion in the School of Public Health in University of Haifa. Diane teaches at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities’ Schools of Public Health  as well. Diane is a summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Boston, and earned a MPH and PhD from the Braun School of Public Health of Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine in Jerusalem.

Diane specializes in action research in health promotion in community primary care, hospital and media settings, in media health literacy, measuring health literacy, and was the principal investigator of the Israel National Health Literacy Survey and is Research Co-Chair for the WHO Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational health Literacy (M-POHL). Diane has fulfilled a number of leadership roles in International Union of Health Education and Promotion, is founder of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Health Literacy, and is Associate  Editor of the Global Health Promotion Journal, IUHPE’s flagship journal.  Diane is the appointed Chair of the WHO Europe Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral and Cultural Insights.

She has specialized in health promotion among special groups: children and adolescents, elderly, people with chronic conditions, and health promotion in multi-cultural settings. She is active in promoting comprehensive and sustainable health promotion implementation on local, national, international and global levels. Diane has extensively published research on various aspects of health literacy, health promotion and cultural appropriateness. She is active in promoting Health Promoting Hospitals in Israel and internationally,  and is one of the founding members of the Israel Association of Health Promoters and Educators and the appointed chair of the National Council for Health Promotion of the Israel Ministry of Health.