Maya Negev

Research work

Dr. Maya Negev's focus is on the science-policy interface of environmental health. By combining quantitative, qualitative, and participatory research methods, as well as interdisciplinary research, she aims to advance scholarly understanding of environmental exposures that impact public health and provide scientific evidence for informed, health-promoting public policy. Her main interest currently is in health aspects of climate change adaptation and resilience. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for humanity in the 21st century, with severe consequences for public health. Dr. Negev's work in this field focuses on three interrelated themes: empirical exploration of hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities to climate change and their distribution among different sectors of the population; improving our understanding of how climate change impacts public health; and development and integration of scientific evidence to support adaptation and resilience to climate change.

Professional experience

Dr. Maya Negev has researched adaptation to climate change across scales, including global health, national government, the health sector, and local authorities. Her research includes studies on adaptation to heatwaves, vector-borne diseases, energy poverty, and climate migration. Increasingly, it includes a strong component of engagement with policy-makers and local populations, facilitating evidence-based climate resilience.

Education

BA Humanities, University of London

MA Environmental Studies, Ben Gurion University

PhD Environmental Studies, Ben Gurion University

Areas of interest & scientific knowledge

Israel

Place of affiliation

Resilience and Wellbeing

Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Resilience
Environmental Health

Public Health

Impacts of Climate Change
Climate Migration

Selected Publications

Segal, E., Feitelson, E., Goulden, S., Razin, E., Rein-Sapir, Y., Kagan, E. J., & Negev, M. (2022). Residential seismic retrofitting: Contextualizing policy packages to local circumstances. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 81, 103264.
Ahmad, W. A., Nirel, R., Golan, R., Jolles, M., Kloog, I., Rotem, R., ... & Levine, H. (2022). Mother-level random effect in the association between PM2. 5 and fetal growth: A population-based pregnancy cohort. Environmental Research, 210, 112974.
Negev, M., Barnett-Itzhaki, Z., Berman, T., Reicher, S., Cohen, N., Ardi, R., ... & Diamond, M. L. (2022). Hazardous chemicals in outdoor and indoor surfaces: artificial turf and laminate flooring. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 32(3), 392-399.
Negev, M., Berman, T., Goulden, S., Reicher, S., Barnett-Itzhaki, Z., Ardi, R., ... & Diamond, M. L. (2022). Lead in children’s jewelry: the impact of regulation. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 32(1), 10-16.
Hochman, A., Alpert, P., Negev, M., Abdeen, Z., Abdeen, A. M., Pinto, J. G., & Levine, H. (2021). The relationship between cyclonic weather regimes and seasonal influenza over the Eastern Mediterranean. Science of the Total Environment, 750, 141686.
Magal, T., Negev, M., & Kaphzan, H. (2021). Attitudinal barriers hindering adoption of telepsychiatry among mental healthcare professionals: Israel as a case-study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12540.
de Nazelle, A., Roscoe, C. J., Roca-Barcelό, A., Sebag, G., Weinmayr, G., Dora, C., ... & Negev, M. (2021). Urban climate policy and action through a health lens—an untapped opportunity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12516.
Dahdal, Y., Davidovitch, N., Gilmont, M., Lezaun, J., Negev, M., Sandler, D., & Shaheen, M. (2021). Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for public health: The Case of the COVID-19 vaccination gap. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11292.
Negev, M., Dahdal, Y., Khreis, H., Hochman, A., Shaheen, M., Jaghbir, M. T., ... & Davidovitch, N. (2021). Regional lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak in the Middle East: From infectious diseases to climate change adaptation. Science of the Total Environment, 768, 144434.
Teschner, N., Sinea, A., Vornicu, A., Abu-Hamed, T., & Negev, M. (2020). Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure. Energy Research & Social Science, 66, 101502.
Vered, S., Paz, S., Negev, M., Tanne, D., Zucker, I., & Weinstein, G. (2020). High ambient temperature in summer and risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack: a national study in Israel. Environmental Research, 187, 109678.
Linares, C., Díaz, J., Negev, M., Martínez, G. S., Debono, R., & Paz, S. (2020). Impacts of climate change on the public health of the Mediterranean Basin population-current situation, projections, preparedness and adaptation. Environmental research, 182, 109107.
Raviv, O., Shamir, S. Z., Izhaki, I., Sagie, H., Negev, M., Mazor-Tregerman, M., ... & Lotan, A. (2020). The socioeconomic value of multiple ecosystem types at a biosphere reserve as a baseline for one holistic conservation plan. Ecosystem services, 41, 101043.
Zarhin, D., Negev, M., Vulfsons, S., & Sznitman, S. R. (2020). “Medical cannabis” as a contested medicine: fighting over epistemology and morality. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 45(3), 488-514.
Negev, M. (2020). Air Pollution Policy in Israel. Atmosphere, 11(10), 1065.
Negev, M., Teschner, N. A., Rosenthal, A., Levine, H., Lew-Levy, C., & Davidovitch, N. (2019). Adaptation of health systems to climate-related migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Closing the gap. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 222(2), 311-314.
Goulden, S., Negev, M., Reicher, S., & Berman, T. (2019). Implications of standards in setting environmental policy. Environmental Science & Policy, 98, 39-46.
Negev, M., Sagie, H., Orenstein, D. E., Shamir, S. Z., Hassan, Y., Amasha, H., ... & Izhaki, I. (2019). Using the ecosystem services framework for defining diverse human-nature relationships in a multi-ethnic biosphere reserve. Ecosystem Services, 39, 100989.