Committees
Membership in Committees
Chair, Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israel
Academy of Science and Humanities, 2017-
Member, National Helsinki Committee (oversees all
human genetic experiments in the State of Israel), 2008-
Member, Israel Council on Animal Experimentation
(oversees all animal experimentation in the State of Israel), 2004-2011,
2017-
Member, Israel National Commission for UNESCO,
Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST),
2010-2013
Chair, Medical Faculty & Science Faculty
Ethics Committee (oversees all non-medical human research in the Medical and
Science Faculties of The Hebrew University), 2005-2011, 2014-2016. Currently a
member of the committee.
Member, University-wide Gender Equity Committee,
Hebrew University, 2009/10-2011
Member, Rector’s Advisory Committee on The Use of
Animals for Teaching Purposes. (2005)
Member, Medical School Committee on Teaching
Medical Humanities and Ethics. (2006)
Member, International Advisory Board, Wellcome
Trust funded project on History of Stress, University of Exeter,
2007-2010.
Organization of Conferences
Israeli Advisory Committee, The 6th International
Conference on Ancient DNA & Associated Biomolecules, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,
Rehovot, July 21-25, 2002.
Steering Committee, Birth as Experience and
Metaphor, International Conference of The Lafer Center for Women’s and Gender
Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 11-13, 2003.
Steering Committee, International Conference on:
Environmental Regulation and The Development and Application of
Nanotechnologies: Lessons from US and European Policy Regarding
Genetically-Modified Organisms, May 15-17, 2005, Tel Aviv University.
Steering Committee, Knowledge and Pain, Scholion
Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, May 24-26, 2010.
Co-organizer, Emotions in History of Medicine:
Between Health and Pathology, Center for Emotional Culture and Identity (CEMID),
University of Navarra, Pamplona, November 18-19, 2011.
