Dr Moriah Ellen (Israel)

Dr Moriah Ellen holds an Master of Business Administration (MBA) in health services management and marketing from McMaster University, Canada (2000) and a PhD from the University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Canada (2007). She also completed a postdoctorate at McMaster University in the area of health policy (2012). Dr Ellen’s primary research interests are health systems and policy, knowledge transfer and exchange, and addressing the use of unnecessary health-care services. More specifically, some of her projects have addressed infrastructure needed to support evidence-informed policy-making at the organizational level; health system initiatives to reduce the unnecessary overuse of tests, treatments and procedures; and the perceptions surrounding antimicrobial resistance within the public and health-care providers. Dr Ellen has consulted both nationally and internationally. For example, she developed the knowledge translation framework for ageing and health for WHO.

Dr Ellen is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management and Faculty of Health Sciences, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She is also an assistant professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and investigator at the McMaster Health Forum in Canada. Dr Ellen has contributed numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, conference presentations and reports for governmental bodies.

Dr Moriah Ellen joined the EACHR in 2018.