Professor Michael Edelstein

Michael Edelstein is a public health doctor with international experience specializing in infectious disease and vaccine epidemiology. His expertise and interests include vaccine epidemiology and policy, health inequalities outbreak management, data quality, and the use and role of digital tools to improve public health. At Bar-Ilan University, his focus is on reducing health inequalities in both infectious and non-communicable diseases in Israel and beyond. Professor Edelstein is also deputy editor of the journal Epidemiology & Infection and president of the infectious diseases section of the European Public Health Association. Before COVID-19 he responded to major public health emergencies in Africa (Ebola) and Southeast Asia (typhoon in the Philippines, earthquake in Nepal) and various European outbreaks. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications. He was also a member of England’s national COVID-19 surveillance team.