Ora Paltiel

Ora Paltiel is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master's in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at the Braun School.

Biography Of Romanian and Ukrainian heritage, Paltiel was born in Canada and emigrated to Israel as a child. Both of her parents were seeking post-graduate degrees. Her family returned and settled in Ottawa before Paltiel went to Toronto for a bachelor's degree in anthropology. That is when she met her future husband, Mark Clarfield. The family moved to Israel in 1992.

Paltiel received her medical degree from the McGill University School of Medicine and a M.Sc.in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, also from McGill, in 1988. She trained in hematology, internal medicine and oncology.

Selected publications Omri Besor, Ora Paltiel, Orly Manor, Milka Donchin, Orly Rauch, Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Associations between density and quality of health promotion programmes and built environment features across Jerusalem, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 1190–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab132 Human menopausal gonadotropin and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer