Public Health

Prof. Liat Lerner-Geva

Reproduction and infertility

Israel has a world-wide unique epidemiology and public health policy regarding reproduction in general and infertility treatments in particular. Prof Lerner-Geva are taking a scientific, evidence-based approach to evaluate these topics, including investigation of factors that predicts successful reproduction and having healthy babies. She is carefully assessing on a national basis the short and long-term adverse outcomes of infertility treatments. These insights will lead to the development of safer and better procedures that are of great interest in the national, as well as the international arena.

Prof. Lerner,-Geva PhD, is at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. She is a board-certified physician in Epidemiology and Public Health with special emphasis on reproductive epidemiology. She is the director of the Women and Children's Health Research Unit at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (Ltd) and the founder and director of the National Registry for in vitro fertilization treatment cycles in Israel.