Her main research interests are various aspects of emergency preparedness and response, risk perceptions and individual and community resilience. Author of several full papers published in peer-reviewed, impacted journals and presented at national and International conferences.
Professional experience
Arielle Kaim is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Public Health’s Department of Emergency Management & Disaster Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She successfully completed a Master of Public Health specializing in Emergency and Disaster Management at the same faculty and is currently completing her PhD. She has been selected as an Ariane De Rothschild Doctoral Fellow. Her main research interests include various aspects of emergency preparedness and response, disaster medicine, disaster management, risk perceptions, and individual and community resilience. She is the author of over 35 full papers published in peer-reviewed, impacted journals and has presented at leading national and international conferences. Arielle serves as a consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Health and the European Commission, and previously worked as a researcher at the Israel National Center for Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research at the Gertner Institute of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research.
Education
She completed successfully a Masters of Public Health specializing in Emergency and Disaster Management at Tel Aviv University and plans to complete an MD/Ph.D. in the near future.
Israel
- Place of affiliation
Emergency and Disaster Management
- Emergency Preparedness and Response of Health Care Systems
- Medical Management in Mass Disasters
- Humanitarian Action
Resilience and Wellbeing
- Coping with Stress
- Individual, Community and National Resilience
- Functional Resilience
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Kimhi, S., Marciano, H., Eshel, Y., & Adini, B. (2025). Predictors of societal and individual resilience across two and a half years of varied adversities. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17538. IF: 3.8, Q1.
Esbit, S*., Kaim, A*., Kimhi, S., Bankauskaite, D., Baran, M., Baran, T., ... & Adini, B. (2025). Hope and Distress: A Cross‐Country Study Amid the Russian‐Ukrainian War. Stress and Health, 41(2), e70033. *Joint first authorship. IF:3.1, Q1.
Kaim, A., Kubbe, I. (2025). Who is the Master of Disasters? Comparative Analysis of Covid-19 Crisis Response and Resilience in Democracies, Hybrid Regimes, and Autocratic States . Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. IF: 3.5, Q2.
Eshel, Y,, Marciano, H., Kimhi, S., Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Adini, B. (2024). National resilience rise following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel as an indicator of collective post-traumatic growth. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 105. BHM
Kaim, A., Milman, E., Zehavi, E., Harel, A., Mazor, I., Jaffe, E., & Adini, B. (2024). Augmented reality-virtual reality wartime training of reserve prehospital teams: a pilot study. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 13(1), 46.
IF: 3.5, Q1.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Kimhi, S., Marciano, H., Eshel, Y., & Adini, B. (2024). Unveiling factors shaping distress levels over 2.5 years of enduring adversity. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17538. IF: 3.8, Q1.
Kaim, A., Geva, K., Siman-Tov, M., Scholder, N., Kimhi, S., Bankauskaite, D., ... & Adini, B. (2024). Mapping societal resilience across eight European nations in the context of multifaceted associations with global indices: An ecological study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108, 104562. IF: 4.2, Q1.
Kaim, A., & Bodas, M. (2024). The impact of 24/7 news coverage on the mental health of Israelis in the ‘Iron Swords’ War: A cross‐sectional analysis among television audience. Stress and Health, e3398. IF: 3.1, Q1.
Kaim, A., Tov, M. S., Kimhi, S., Marciano, H., Eshel, Y., & Adini, B. (2024). A longitudinal study of societal resilience and its predictors during the Israel‐Gaza war. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being. IF: 3.8, Q1.
Kaim, A., Singer, C., Bergovoy-Yellin, L., Luxenburg, O., Vaknin, S., Boldor, N., ... & Myers, V. (2024). Exploring pre-MRI imaging tests: patient survey reveals potential implications for healthcare efficiency in Israel. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 13(1), 7. IF: 3.5, Q1.
Kaim, A., Kimhi, S., Siman-Tov, M., Bankauskaite, D., Baran, M., Baran, T., ... & Adini, B. (2024). From compassion to controversy: Unraveling the impact of societal resilience on the tapestry of attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105, 104326. .IF: 4.2, Q1.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Lev-Ari, S., & Adini, B. (2024). Perceived functional resilience in schools according to key stakeholders. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1044.IF: 3.8, Q1.
Savitsky, B., Radomislensky, I., Katorza, E., & Kaim, A. (2023). Injury as a Result of Children and Adolescent Labor—An Association with Ethnicity and Peripherality: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on the Israeli Trauma Registry. European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education, 14(1), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe14010009. IF: 3.0, Q1.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Adini, B., & Lev-Ari, S. (2023). An innovative tool to assess the functional resilience of a school system: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1291621.IF: 3.8, Q1.
Kimhi, S., Kaim, A., Bankauskaite, D., Baran, M., Baran, T., Eshel, Y., ... & Adini, B. (2024). A full‐scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Resilience and coping within and beyond Ukraine. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 16(3), 1005-1023..IF: 6.9, Q1.
Rosen, S., Singer, C., Vaknin, S., Kaim, A., Luxenburg, O., Makori, A., ... & Saban, M. (2023). Inappropriate CT examinations: how much, who and where? Insights from a clinical decision support system (CDSS) analysis. European Radiology, 33(11), 7796-7804.IF: 5.9, Q1.
Kaim, A., Bodas, M., Bieler, D., Radomislensky, I., Matthes, G., Givon, A., ... & Lefering, R. (2023). Severe trauma in Germany and Israel: are we speaking the same language? A trauma registry comparison. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1136159. IF: 5.2, Q1.
Kaim, A., Bodas, M., Camacho, N. A., Peleg, K., & Ragazzoni, L. (2023). Enhancing disaster response of emergency medical teams through “TEAMS 3.0” training package—Does the multidisciplinary intervention make a difference?. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1150030..IF: 5.2, Q1.
Kaim, A., & Saban, M. (2023, March). Dynamic Trends in Sociodemographic Disparities and COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality—A Nationwide Study during Two Years of a Pandemic. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 7, p. 933). MDPI .IF: 2.8, Q2.
Kaim, A., Zeevy, G., & Saban, M. (2022, December). COVID-19 Risk Compensation? Examining Vaccination Uptake among Recovered and Classification of Breakthrough Cases. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 58). MDPI. IF: 2.8, Q2.
Kaim, A., Lev-Ari, S., & Adini, B. (2023). Distress following the COVID-19 pandemic among schools’ stakeholders: psychosocial aspects and communication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 4837. IF: 4.61, Q1.
Kaim, A., Shetrit, S. B., & Saban, M. (2022). Women are more infected and seek care faster but are less severely ill: gender gaps in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality during two years of a pandemic in Israel. In Healthcare (Vol. 10, No. 12, p. 2355). MDPI. IF: 3.16, Q2.
Luxenburg, O., Singer, C., Kaim, A., Saban, M., & Wilf‐Miron, R. (2023). Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities along five waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons we have not yet learnt. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 55(1), 45-55. IF: 3.92, Q1.
Saban, M*., Kaim, A*., Myers, V., & Wilf-Miron, R. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccination, Morbidity, and Mortality During a 12-Month Period in Israel: Can We Maintain a “Herd Immunity” State?. Population Health Management, 25(5), 684-691. IF: 2.29, Q2.
* Joint first authorship
Kaim, A., & Saban, M. (2022). Are we suffering from the Peltzman effect? Risk perception among recovered and vaccinated people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. Public Health, 209, 19-22. IF: 4.98, Q1.
Bodas, M., Adini, B., Jaffe, E., Kaim, A., & Peleg, K. (2022). Lockdown efficacy in controlling the spread of COVID-19 may be waning due to decline in public compliance, especially among unvaccinated individuals: A cross-sectional study in Israel. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 4943.IF: 4.61, Q1.
Bodas, M*., Kaim, A*., Velan, B., Ziv, A., Jaffe, E., & Adini, B. (2022). Overcoming the effect of pandemic fatigue on vaccine hesitancy—Will belief in science triumph?. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 55(1), 262-271.
*Joint first authorship IF: 3.93, Q1.
Savitsky, B., Radomislensky, I., Goldman, S., Kaim, A., ITG (Israel Trauma Group) A. Acker N. Aviran H. Bahouth A. Bar A. Becker A. Braslavsky D. Fadeev AL Goldstein I. Grevtsev I. Jeroukhimov A. Kedar A. Korin M. Qarawany AD Schwarz W. Shomar D. Soffer M. Stein M. Venturero M. Weiss O. Yaslowitz I. Zoarets, & Bodas, M. (2021). The surfacing portion of the Iceberg of the Domestic Violence Phenomenon—data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry. Israel journal of health policy research, 10, 1-12. IF: 2.46, Q2.
Savitsky, B., Radomislensky, I., Goldman, S., Kaim, A., Acker, A., Aviran, N., ... & Bodas, M. (2021). Electric bikes and motorized scooters-Popularity and burden of injury. Ten years of National trauma registry experience. Journal of Transport & Health, 22, 101235. IF: 3.61, Q2.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Jaffe, E., & Adini, B. (2021). Effect of a concise educational program on COVID-19 vaccination attitudes. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 767447.IF: 6.46, Q1.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Jaffe, E., & Adini, B. (2021). From isolation to containment: Perceived fear of infectivity and protective behavioral changes during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(12), 6503. IF: 4.61, Q1.
Kaim, A., Siman-Tov, M., Jaffe, E., & Adini, B. (2021). Factors that enhance or impede compliance of the public with governmental regulation of lockdown during COVID-19 in Israel. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 66, 102596. IF: 4.842, Q1.
Kaim, A., Jaffe, E., Siman-Tov, M., Khairish, E., & Adini, B. (2020). Impact of a brief educational intervention on knowledge, perceived knowledge, perceived safety, and resilience of the public during COVID-19 crisis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(16), 5971. IF: 2.849, Q1.
Berman, Z., Kaim, A., Reed, T., Felicione, J., Hinojosa, C., Oliver, K., ... & Dekel, S. (2020). Amygdala response to traumatic childbirth recall is associated with impaired bonding behaviors in mothers with childbirth-related PTSD symptoms: preliminary findings. Biological Psychiatry, 87(9), S142. IF: 13.382, Q1.
Berman, Z., Kaim, A., Shin, L., & Dekel, S. (2019). T7. Neural Responses to Script-Driven Imagery in Women With PTSD Following a Traumatic Childbirth. Biological Psychiatry, 85(10), S131-S132. IF: 12.095, Q1.
Review articles:
Kaim, A., Gering, T., Moshaiov, A., & Adini, B. (2021). Deciphering the COVID-19 health economic dilemma (HED): a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9555. IF: 3.390, Q1.
