Prof. Bruria Adini
Israel
Prof. Adini specializes since 1987 in emergency preparedness and response of healthcare systems for mass casualty events and disasters. She is involved in both field and academic activities, facilitating research of challenges identified in preparing for and managing varied emergency situations and implementing the findings to promote effective management of emergencies and disasters. She is involved in planning and implementation processes aimed at ensuring effective responses to different hazards that pose a risk, including in studying, teaching, and validating policies.
Professional experience
Prof. Adini is the head of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine in the School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Adini serves as a board member of the Local Authorities Confronting Disasters and Emergencies (LACDE), Science Training Encouraging Peace – Graduate Training Program (STEP GTP), the National Forum of Emergency Management, as well as a member of the Israeli National Council for Trauma and Surgery. She previously served for two periods as a board member of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM).
She served in the Medical Corps for 17 years including 4 years as head of the emergency hospitalization branch, responsible for the emergency preparedness of all general hospitals. For 3 years headed the Emergency Hospitalization Department in the Ministry of Health (MOH). Since 2000, serves as a senior consultant of the MOH on emergency management. Dr. Adini directed on behalf of the MOH, Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) various training courses, aimed at developing and enhancing emergency management competencies among healthcare personnel.
Education
Prof. Adini has a PhD in management of health systems.
Israel
- Place of affiliation
Resilience and Wellbeing
- Coping with Stress
- Individual, Community and National Resilience
Emergency and Disaster Management
- Medical Management in Mass Disasters
- Humanitarian Action
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B. Distress and Resilience in days of COVID-19: Comparing two Ethnicities, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 3;17(11):3956. 2020.
- Kimhi S, Marciano H, Eshel Y, Adini B. Community and national resilience and their predictors in face of terror. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 50:101746. 2020.
- *Kaim A, Jaffe E, Siman-Tov M, Khairish E, Adini B. 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. 2020.
- Kimhi S, Marciano H, Eshel Y, Adini B. Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: Distress and resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 50:101843. 2020.
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B. Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine. 25:113389. 2020.
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B. A renewed outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of distress, resilience, and subjective well-being. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health. 17: 1. 2020. doi:10.3390/ijerph17210000.
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B. Fluctuations in National Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(8):3876. 2021.
- Nissan D, Weiss G, Siman-Tov M, Bodas M, Shenhar G, Spitz A, Adini B, Differences in levels of psychological distress, perceived safety, trust and efficacy amongst hospital personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research in Nursing and Health. 2021;44:776–786.
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B. Prediction of hope and morale during COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:739645. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.739645.
- Ballada, CJA, Aruta JJBR, Callueng CM, Antazo BG, Kimhi S, Reinert M, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B, da Silva JD, Verdu FC. Bouncing back from COVID-19: Individual and Ecological Factors Influence National Resilience in Adults from Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. Doi: 10.1002/casp.2569. 2021.
- Kimhi S, Eshel Y, Marciano H, Adini B, Bonanno GA. Trajectories of depression and anxiety during COVID-19 associations with religion, income, and economic difficulties. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 144:389-396. 2021.
- Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Marciano H, Adini B. Morale and Perceived Threats as Predictors of Psychological Coping with Distress in Pandemic and Armed Conflict Times. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Jan; 18(16):8759. 2021.
- Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Marciano H, Adini B. Components of Unrealistic Optimism of College Students: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:763571. 2021
- Kimhi, Shaul; Eshel, Yohanan ; Adini, Bruria ; Aruta, John; Antazo, Benedict ; Briones-Diato , Alelie ; Reinert, Maurício ; da Silva, Juliano; Verdu, Fabiane; Marciano, Hadas. Distress and resilience in days of COVID-19: International study of samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines. Cross-Cultural Research. 55(5):415-437. 2021.
- Marciano H, Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Adini B. Hope and Fear of Threats as Predictors of Coping with Two Major Adversities, The COVID-19 Pandemic and an Armed Conflict. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19:1123. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031123.
- Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Marciano H, Adini B. Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection. Frontiers in Public Health. 2022.
- Bodas M, Peleg K, Stolero N, Adini B. Risk perception of natural and human-made disasters – cross sectional study in eight countries in Europe and beyond. Frontiers in Public Health – Disaster and Emergency Medicine. 10:825985. 2022.
- Bodas M, Peleg K, Stolero N, Adini B. Understanding Societal Resilience -Cross-Sectional Study in Eight Countries". Frontiers in Public Health, section Disaster and Emergency Medicine. 2022
- Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Marciano H, Adini B. Conspiracy Claims and Secret Intentions as Predictors of Psychological Coping and Vaccine Uptake During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Submitted to: Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2022.
