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CURRICULUM VITAE 

ITZHAK LEVAV (formerly. Lubchansky) 


ITZHAK LEVAV, M.D. 

Business Address: Israel Ministry of Health 

Mental Health Services 

2 Ben Tabai Street – PO Box 1176 

Jerusalem 91010 

Israel 

Tel: 011-972-2-5681423 

Fax: 011-972-2-6725822 

Email: itzhak.levav@moh.health.gov.il 

CURRENT POSITION 

EDUCATION 

Ministry of Health, State of Israel 


Advisor on Research 

1999 - Present 

Medical School University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine 

Buenos Aires, Argentina 

1962, M.D. 

Other Advanced Degrees 

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING 

Diploma in Psychiatry (with Distinction) 

McGill University 

Montreal, Canada 

1967 

Residency Residency: Psychiatry 



1963 - 1967 

Fellowship Presbyterian Hospital 

New York, USA. 

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Columbia University, School of Public Health and Department 

of Psychiatry 

Social and Community Psychiatry 

1969, M.Sc.

AWARDS AND HONORS 



1967 - 1969 

American Psychiatric Association 

Simon Bolivar Award 

1989 

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American Association for the Advancement of Science 

Behavioral Sciences Award (with Dr. B.P. Dohrenwend et al.) 

1991 

John Templeton Foundation, Exemplary Papers Awards Program 

Honorable Mention: Levav I, Kohn R, Golding J, Weissman 

MM: Vulnerability of Jews to Affective Disorders, American 

Journal of Psychiatry, 154: 7; 941-947, 1997 

1998 

World Federation for Mental Health 

Distinguished Public Service Award 

1999 

United States Department of Health and Human Services 

SAMHSA, Center for Mental Health Services 

Special Recognition Award 

1999 

National University of Cordoba, Argentina 

Doctor Honoris Causa 

2008 

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND BOARD CERTIFICATION 

Medical Licenses Licensed in Israel and Argentina 

Specialty and National Boards Specialized in Psychiatry in Israel 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 

Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry 

New York, USA 

Visiting Associate Professor 

1979 - 1986 

The Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine 

Hebrew University

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS 



Jerusalem, Israel 

Senior Lecturer 

1980 - 1989 

Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry 

New York, USA 

Adjunct Research Scientist 


John Hopkins University 

Baltimore, MD, USA 

Associate, Department of Mental Hygiene 

1990 – 1999 

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Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 

Providence, RI, USA 

Adjunct Associate Professor 

1992 - 1995 

Queen’s University Department of Psychiatry 

Kingston, Ontario, Canada 

Adjunct Associate Professor 

1999- Present 

Indian Law Society 

Pune, India 

Faculty, International Diploma in Mental Health Law and 

Human Rights 

2009-2010 



1963 - 1967 

Presbyterian Hospital 


Fellow 

1967 – 1969 

The Ackerman Institute of Family Psychiatry 


Psychiatrist 

1968 - 1969

INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS 



Lanus General Hospital 

Division of Community Psychiatry 

Lanus, Argentina 

Director 

1969 - 1971 

Israel Defense Forces 


1974-1975 

Hadassah University Hospital 


Assistant Physician 

1971-1980 

Senior Physician 

1980-1990 

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Organizations Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization 

Dominican Republic, Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela 

Consultant, Mental Health 

1980 - 1986 

Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization 

Regional Advisor in Mental Health 

1987 - 1999 

Program Coordinator, Health Life Styles and Mental Health 

1995 - 1999 

World Health Organization 

Technical Officer 

2000-2004 

Regional Office for Europe - Copenhagen 

Consultant 

2001- 2004



WHO Representation for the West Bank and Gaza 

Consultant 

2004 – Present 

PanAmerican Health Organization/WHO 

Acting Regional Adviser in Mental Health 

Dec 2005-August 2006 

World Health Organization 

Panel of Experts-Mental Health 

2006- 

Research Committees Columbia University, New York, USA, Social Psychiatry 

and Activities Research Unit 

1979 - 1981 

Lanus General Hospital, Lanus, Argentina 

Epidemiology Unit, Department of Psychiatry 

1969 - 1971 

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Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine 


1971 - 1974 

Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine 

Epidemiology Unit 


1975 – 1979 

1981-1987 

Columbia University Social Psychiatry Research Unit 

Columbia University, New York, USA 

1979 - 1981 

World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization 

Washington, D.C., USA 

Research Committee, DRC 

1989-1994 

Chairman, Research Ethics Committee 

1995-1999 

Israel Ministry of Health 

Mental Health Services



Advisor on Research 

1999-Present 

Editorial Boards Public Health Reviews (Israel) 

1978-1982 

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 

Acting Editor-in-Chief 

1978- Present 

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 

Acting Editor-in-Chief 

1986 - 1987 

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Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de America Latina, (Argentina) 

1993-Present 

Psiquiatría Pública (Spain) 

1994-2001 

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry 

Editorial Board Member 

1999-Present 

Revista de la Maestria en Salud Publica (Argentina) 



“bridges” 


2004 - 2005 

Reviewer for Journals Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de America Latina 

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 

American Journal of Psychiatry 

Archives of General Psychiatry 

British Journal of Psychiatry 

Israel Journal of Psychiatry 

The Journal of the Pan American Health Organization 

Psychiatric Services 

Psychological Medicine 

Psychosomatic Medicine 

The Lancet 

MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES



The Association for Social Psychiatry 

Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Chairperson 

1969 - 1971 

First Congress of Community Mental Health 

Tel Aviv University, Israel 

Chairperson 

1977 

Columbia University, New York, USA 

Psychiatry Epidemiology Training Program 

Training Coordinator 

1980 - 1981 

Shiluv Institute for Family Therapy 


Chair Board 

1981 – 1987 

Acting Chair 

2002-2004 

Board Member 

2004-Present 

International Congress on Alcoholism 


Member, Scientific Committee 

1983 - 1984 

World Federation of Mental Health - European Section 

Primary Care and Mental Health 

Beer Sheva, Israel 

Member, Scientific Committee 

1983 - 1984 

Falk Institute for Behavioral Sciences 


Board Member 

1985 - 1987 

Simon Bolivar Research and Training Center 

University of Illinois 

Chicago, USA 

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International Board 

1986 - 1990 

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McGill University/World Health Organization Collaborating 

Center 


International Advisory 

1987 – 1999 

Society of Hispanic Psychiatrists, USA 

Honorary Member 


World Psychiatric Association 

Section Committee, Epidemiology and Community Psychiatry 

1987 – 2000 

American Psychiatric Association, USA 

Corresponding Fellow 

1989 - 1999 

American Association for the Advancement of Science 

1991 – 1995 

Meuravut 


Board Member 


Israel Psychiatric Association 

Member 

1991 - Present



ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 

1. Lubchansky I (Levav), Egri G, Stokes J: Puerto Rican spiritualists view mental illness. 

The faith healer as a paraprofessional. American Journal of Psychiatry 127:3; 312-321, 

1970 

2. Tarnopolsky A, Lubchansky I (Levav), Mirenski A: Mental illness and social disability. 

Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization 74:3; 187-198, 1973 (in Spanish) 

3. Lubchansky I (Levav), Tarnopolsky A, Mainemer N: Social disability and community 

psychiatry planning. Harefuah, 85:6; 277-280, 1973 (in Hebrew) 

4. Kark SL, Mainemer N, Abramson JH, Lubchansky I (Levav), Kurtzman CH: 

Community medicine and primary health care: a field workshop on the use of 

epidemiology in practice. International Journal of Epidemiology 2:4; 419-426 

5. Levav I, Minami H: Mothers and daughters and the psychogeriatric patient. The 

Gerontologist 14:3; 197-200, 1974 

6. Levav I, Minami H, Adler B: Mothers and daughters diagnose mental illness. Israel 

Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines 12:4; 319-327, 1974 

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7. Tarnopolsky A, Del Olmo G, Levav I: Survey of alcoholism and excessive drinking in a 

suburb of Buenos Aires. Psychological Medicine 5:2; 193-205, 1975 

8. Aviram U, Levav I: Psychiatric epidemiology in Israel - five community studies. Acta 

Psychiatrica Scandinavica 52:5; 295-311, 1975 

9. Levav I: Frequent visits to the clinic - an encounter between general practice and 

psychiatry. Public Health 19:1, 241-244, 1976 (in Hebrew) 

10. Levav I, Arnon A: The emotional burden on a rural practice. Israel Annals of Psychiatry 

and Related Disciplines 14:1; 58-65, 1976 

11. Levav I, Arnon A: Emotional disorders in six Israeli villages. Acta Psychiatrica 

Scandinavica, 53:5; 287-400, 1976 

12. Levav I., Arnon A: Non-respondents in a psychiatric survey. American Journal of 

Public Health, 66:1; 989-991, 1976 

13. Levav I: Target groups in community psychiatry: an epidemiological approach. Israel 

Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines 15:3; 199-212, 1977 

14. Tarnopolsky A, Caetano R, Levav I, Del Olmo G: Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity 

in an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires. Social Psychiatry 12:2; 75-88, 1977



15. Levav I, Arnon A, Portnoy A: Two shortened versions of the C.M.I. - a new test of their 

validity. International Journal of Epidemiology 6:2; 135-141, 1977 

16. Levav I, Grinfeld H, Baruch E: Epidemiological aspects of psychiatric combat 

reactions. Harefuah 95:2; 53-57, 1978 (in Hebrew) 

17. Levav I, Grinfeld H, Baruch E: Psychiatric combat reactions during the Yom Kippur 

War. American Journal of Psychiatry, 136:5; 637-641, 1979 

18. Arnon A, Levav I: Psychosomatic disorders in a rural family practice. Psychosomatics 

20:7; 483-491, 1979 

19. Cohen-Gore A, Levav I: The general practitioner's attitudes to psychiatry. Harefuah 

98:7; 313-315, 1980 (in Hebrew) 

20. Levav I, Krasnoff L, Dohrenwend BS: Israeli PERI Life Events Scale: ratings of events 

by a community sample. Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 17:2-3; 176-183, 1981 

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21. Dohrenwend BP, Dohrenwend BS, Levav I, Shrout PE: Psychiatric Epidemiology 

Research Interview (PERI) - a test of its screening scales. Harefuah 50:6; 274-276, 1981 

(in Hebrew) 

22. Link BG, Levav I, Cohen A: The primary medical care practitioner's attitudes toward 

psychiatry: an Israeli study. Social Science and Medicine 16:15; 1433-1420, 1982 

23. Eaton WW, Levav I: Schizophrenia, social class and ethnic disadvantage. A study of 

first hospitalization among Israeli-born Jews. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related 

Sciences 19:4; 289-302, 1983 

24. Dohrenwend BS, Dohrenwend BP, Link BG, Levav I: Social functioning of psychiatric 

patients by contrast with community "cases" in the general population. Archives of 

General Psychiatry 40:11; 1174-1182, 1983 

25. Levav I, Abramson JH: Emotional distress among concentration camp survivors - a 

community study in Jerusalem. Psychological Medicine 14:1; 215-218, 1984 

26. Levav I, Abramson JH: A community study of emotional distress in Jerusalem. Israel 

Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 21:4; 217-233, 1984 

27. Levav I, Ran A, Turetsky N: Diagnostic reliability among psychiatrists. Results of two 

exercises. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 21:4; 217-233, 1984 

28. Levav I, Coter ID, Doron A, Naot Y, Manaur A, Sinai T: Medical students and their 

views on psychiatric issues. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 22:4; 

291-301, 1985



29. Shrout PE, Dohrenwend BP, Levav I: A discriminant rule for screening cases of diverse 

diagnostic types: preliminary results. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 

54:3; 314-319, 1986 

30. Litman A, Levav I, Slatz-Rennert H, Maoz B: The use of Khat - an epidemiological 

study in two moshavim. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 10:4; 389-396, 1986 

31. Levav I, Grinshpoon A, Zilber N: Community mental health ideology among 

psychiatrists and social workers. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 

23:4; 259-273, 1986 

32. Levav I, Zilber N, Danielovich E, Aisenberg A, Turetsky N: The etiology of 

schizophrenia: a replication test of the social selection vs. the social causation 

hypotheses. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 75:2; 183-189, 1987 

33. Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout PE, Link BG, Skodol A, Martin J: Life stress and 

psychopathology. The Barbara S. Dohrenwend Memorial lecture. American Journal of 

Community Psychology 15:6, 677-715, 1987. 

34. Auslander G, Levav I, Nachmani N: Screening for depressive symptoms among the 

elderly in Israel. A reliability and validity study. Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 

24:1; 32-37, 1988 

35. Levav I, Friedlander Y, Kark JD, Peritz E: The epidemiology of mortality among 

bereaved parents. New England Journal of Medicine 319:8; 457-461, 1988 

36. Flaherty JA, Kohn R, Levav I, Birz S: Demoralization in Soviet Jewish immigrants to 

the US and Israel. Comprehensive Psychiatry 29:6; 588-597, 1988 

37. Levav I, Magnes Y, Aisenberg E, Rosenblum I, Gil R: Sociodemographic correlates of 

suicidal ideation and reported attempts. A brief report on a community survey. Israel 


38. Levav I, Gofin J: Techniques of intervention in the community. Community diagnosis. 

Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 34:4; 287-297, 1988 (in Spanish) 

39. Levav I, Aisenberg E: Suicide in Israel. Crossnational comparisons. Acta Psychiatrica 

Scandinavica 79:5; 468-473, 1989 

40. Levav I, Aisenberg E: Suicide in Israel. International and intranational comparisons. 

Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 19:2; 184-200, 1989 

41. Levav I, Lima B, Somoza-Lennon M, Kramer M, Gonzalez R: Mental health for all in 

Latin America and the Caribbean. The epidemiologic basis for action. Bulletin of the 

Pan American Health Organization 107:3; 196-219, 1989 (in Spanish) 

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42. Kohn R, Flaherty JA, Levav I: Somatic symptoms among older Soviet immigrants. An 

exploratory study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 35:4; 350-360, 1989 

43. Levav I, Kohn R, Flaherty JA, Aisenberg E, Lerner Y: Mental health attitudes and helpseeking 

practices among Soviet immigrants to Israel. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and 

Related Sciences 27:3; 131-144, 1990 

44. Guilboa S, Levav I, Guilboa L, Ruiz F: Epidemiology of demoralization in a kibbutz. 

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 82:1; 60-64, 1990 

45. Fenig S, Levav I: Demoralization and social supports among Holocaust survivors. 

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 170:3; 167-172, 1991 

46. Levav I, Guilboa S, Ruiz F: Demoralization and gender differences in a kibbutz. 

Psychological Medicine 21:4; 1019-1028, 1991 

47. Schwartz S, Link BG, Dohrenwend BP, Naveh G, Levav I, Shrout P: Separating class 

and ethnic prejudice: a study of North African and European Jews in Israel. Social 

Psychology Quarterly 54:4; 287-298, 1991 

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48. Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout PE, Schwartz S, Naveh G, Link BG, Skodol AE, 

Stueve A: Socioeconomic status and psychiatric disorders: the causation-selection issue. 

Science 255; 946-952, 1992 

49. Fennig S, Levav I, Kohn R, Yelin N: Telephone vs. face-to-face interviewing in a 

community psychiatric survey. American Journal of Public Health 83:6; 896-898, 1993 

50. Levav I, Kohn R, Dohrenwend BP, Shrout PE, Skodol AE, Schwartz S, Link BG, 

Naveh G: An epidemiological study of mental disorder in a 10 year cohort of young 

adults in Israel. Psychological Medicine 23:3; 691-708, 1993 

51. Skodol AE, Schwartz S, Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout P: Minor depression in a 

cohort of young adults in Israel. Archives of General Psychiatry 51:7; 542-551, 1994 

52. Kohn R, Levav I: Jews and the intraethnic differential vulnerability to affective 

disorders, fact or artifact? I: An overview of the literature. Israel Journal of Psychiatry 

and Related Sciences 31:4; 261-270, 1994 

53. Schwartz S, Dohrenwend BP, Levav I: Non-genetic transmission of psychiatric 

disorders: evidence from children of the Holocaust. Journal of Health and Social 

Behavior 35:385-402, 1994 

54. Kullgren G, Jacobsson L, Lynoe N, Kohn R, Levav I: Practice and attitudes among 

Swedish psychiatrists regarding the ethics of compulsory treatment. Acta Psychiatrica 

Scandinavica 93:5; 389-396, 1996



55. Levav I, González R: El uso de la terapia electroconvulsivante en América Latina y el 

Caribe. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 42; 137-141, 1996 (in 

Spanish) 

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56. Bustelo P, Mari J, Fernandez C, Baxter S, Levav I: Epidemiología del consumo de 

tranquilizantes menores en la ciudad de Montevideo. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de 

América Latina 42; 105-112, 1996 (in Spanish) 

57. Levav I, Guerrero R, Phebo L, Coe G, Cerqueira MT: Physical punishment in children: 

endemic or epidemic? Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana 120:3; 229-239, 

1996 (in Spanish) 

58. Bustelo P, Mari J, Fernandez C, Andreoli SB, Levav I: A tranquil city with a high 

tranquilliser intake. Lancet 347:9010; 1264-1265, 1996 

59. Skodol A, Schwartz S, Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout P, Reiff M: PTSD symptoms 

and comorbid mental disorders in Israeli war veterans. British Journal of Psychiatry 

169; 717-725, 1996 

60. Kohn R, Levav I, Chang B, Halperin B, Zadka P: Epidemiology of youth suicide in 

Israel. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36; 1537- 

1542, 1997 

61. Levav I, Kohn R, Golding J, Weissman MM: Vulnerability of Jews to affective 

disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry 154; 941-947, 1997 

62. Kohn R, Levav I, Dohrenwend BP, Shrout PE, Skodol AE: Jews and their intraethnic 

vulnerability to affective disorders, fact or artifact? II: Evidence from a cohort study. 

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 34; 149-156, 1997 

63. Kohn R, Levav I, Zolondek S, Richter M: Affective disorders among Jews: a historical 

review and meta-analysis. History of Psychiatry 10; 245-267,1999 

64. Levav I, Stephenson C, Theodore W: Epilepsy in Latin America and the Caribbean: a 

survey on needs and resources. Pan American Journal of Public Health 6:5; 342-345, 

1999 

65. Lopez Stewart C, Lara MG, Amighetti LD, Wissow LS, Gutierrez MI, Levav I, 

Maddaleno M: Parenting and physical punishment: primary care interventions in Latin 

America. Pan American Journal of Public Health 8:4; 257-267, 2000 

66. Bonander J, Kohn R, Arana B, Levav I: An anthropological and epidemiological 

overview of mental health in Belize. Transcultural Psychiatry 37:1; 57-72, 2000



67. Levav I, González Uzcátegui R: Human rights of persons with mental illness in Central 

America. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Suppl 399:101; 83-86, 2000 

68. Kohn R, Sharma D, Camilleri Ch P, Levav I: Attitudes towards mental illness in the 

Commonwealth of Dominica. Pan American Journal of Public Health 7:3; 148-154, 

2000 

69. Levav I, Kohn R, Iscovich J, Tsai W, Vigdorovich D, Abramson JH: Cancer incidence 

and progression following bereavement. American Journal of Public Health 90; 1601- 

1607, 2000 

70. Szabo CP, Kohn R, Gordon A, Levav I, Hart GA: Ethics in the practice of psychiatry in 

South Africa. South African Medical Journal 90:5; 498-503, 2000 

71. Kohn R, Levav I, Alterwain P, Ruocco G, Contrera M, Della Grotta S: Risk Factors for 

behavioral and emotional problems in childhood: a community study in Uruguay 

[Factores de riesgo de trastornos conductauales y emocionales en la niñez: estudio 

communitario en el Uruguay]. Pan American Journal of Public Health 9:4; 211-218, 

2001 (in Spanish). 

72. Kohn R, Alterwain P, Levav I, Ruocco G, Murillo N, Contrera M, Carzoli L, Della 

Grotta S, Kim S: Screening for mental Illness and alcohol use disorders in two 

communities in Uruguay [Trastornos mentales y uso indebido de alcohol en dos 

comunidades del Uruguay]. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 47:3; 

221-228, 2001 (in Spanish) 

73. Moreno P, Levav I, Saravanan Y, Caldas JM: El empleado del salon de belleza como 

agente comunitario en el control de los trastornos depresivos. Acta Psiquiátrica y 

Psicológica de América Latina 48:1-4; 47-56, 2003 (in Spanish) 

74. Selten JP, Cantor-Graae E, Nahon D, Levav I, Aleman A, Kahn RS: No relationship 

between risk of schizophrenia and prenatal exposure during the Six-Day War or Yom 

Kippur War in Israel. Schizophrenia Research 63; 131-135, 2003 

75. Mendonca C, Levav I, Jacobsson L, Rutz W: Stigma and discrimination against older 

people with mental disorders in Europe. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 

18; 1-4, 2003 

76. Gofin, R., Levav I, Kohn, R: Attitudes and opinions of Israeli Jews about corporal 

punishment. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 41; 90-97, 2004 

77. Ponizovsky A, Grinshpoon A, Levav I, Ristner MS: Life satisfaction and suicidal 

attempts among persons with schizophrenia. Comprehensive Psychiatry 44; 442-447, 

2003 

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78. Moreno P, Saravanan Y, Levav I, Kohn R, Miranda C: Evaluation of the PAHO/WHO 

training program on the detection and treatment of depression for primary care nurses in 

Panama. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 108; 61-65, 2003 

79. Saxena S, Maulik PK, Sharan P, Levav I, Saraceno B: Brief report - mental health 

research on low- and middle-income countries in indexed journals: a preliminary 

assessment. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 7:3; 127-131, 2004 

80. Shemesh A, Levav I, Blumstein T, Nobikov I: Emotional distress among the elderly in 

Israel. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 41; 174-183, 2004 

81. Kohn R, Saxena S, Levav I, Saraceno B: The treatment gap in mental health care. 

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 82:11; 858-866, 2004 

82. Levav I, Shemesh A, Grinshpoon A, Aisenberg E, Shershevsky Y, Kohn R: Mental 

health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices in two kibbutzim. Social Psychiatry 

and Psychiatric Epidemiology 39:9; 758-764, 2004 

83. Levav I, Jacobsson L, Tsiantis J, Kolaitis G, Ponizovsky A: Psychiatric services and 

training for children and adolescents in Europe: results of a country survey. European 

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 13:6; 395, 2004 

84. Grinshpoon A, Bar-Hana M, Ponizovsky A, Lipshitz I, Nahon D, Tal O, Weizman A, 

Levav I: Cancer in schizophrenia: is the risk higher or lower? Schizophrenia Research 

73:2-3; 333-341, 2005 

85. Levav I, Kohn R, Montoya I, Palacio C, Rozic P, Salano I, Valentini W, Vicente B, 

Morales Castro J, Espejo Eigueta F, Saravanan Y, Miranda CT, Sartorius N: Training 

Latin American primary care physicians in the WPA module on depression: results of a 

multicenter trial. Psychological Medicine 35:1; 35-45, 2005 

86. Ponizovsky A, Grinshpoon A, Sasson R, Levav I: Stress in adult students with 

schizophrenia in a supported education program. Comprehensive Psychiatry 45:5; 401- 

407, 2004 

87. Valentini W, Levav I, Kohn R, Miranda CT, Mello Ad Ade A, Mello MF, Ramos CP: 

An educational training program for physicians for diagnosis and treatment of 

depression [Treinamento de clínicos para o diagnóstico e tratamento da depressão]. 

Revista de Saude Pública 38:4; 522-528, 2004 (in Portuguese) 

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88. Kohn R, Levav I, Donaire Garcia I, Machuca E, Tamashiro R: Prevalence, risk factors 

and aging vulnerability for psychopathology following a natural disaster in a developing 

country. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 20:9, 835-841, 2005.



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89. Kohn R, Levav I, Caldas de Almeida JM, Miranda CT, Vicente B, Andrade LHG, 

Caraveo Anduaga J, Saxena S, Saraceno B: Mental Disorders in Latin America and the 

Caribbean: a public health priority. Pan American Journal of Public Health 18; 4/5 229- 

240, 2005 

90. Vicente B, Kohn R, Rioseco P, Saldivia S, Levav I, Torres S: Lifetime and 12-month 

prevalence in the Chile Psychiatric Prevalence Study. American Journal of Psychiatry 

2006; 163:1362-1370. 

91. Kohn R, Levav I, Donaire Garcia I, Machuca E, Tamashiro R: Psychological and 

psychopathological reactions following the Hurricane Mitch in Honduras: Implications for service 

planning. Pan American Journal of Public Health. 2005; 18: 287-295 

92. Shemesh AA, Kohn R, Blumstein T, Geraisy N, Novikov I, Levav I: A Community 

Study on Emotional Distress among Arab and Jewish Israelis over the Age of Sixty : 

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2006; 21:64-76. 

93. Levav I, Shemesh AA, Kohn R et al: What is in a name? Professionals and Service User's 

Opinions of the Hebrew Terms Used to Name Psychiatric Disorders and Disability. 

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 42:4, 242-247, 2005. 

94. Billig M, Kohn R, Levav I Anticipatory stress in the population facing involuntary removal in the 

Gaza Strip. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 194:3, 195-200, 2006. 

95. Levav I, Nobikov I, Grinshpoon A, Rosenblum J, Ponizovsky A: Health Services Utilization in 

Jerusalem under Terrorism. American Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 163:1355-1361 

96. Levav I, Al-Krenawi A, Ifrah A et al. Common mental disorders among Israeli Arabs: Israel 

Journal of Psychiatry and Related Science 2007 2;. 104-113. 

97. Nahon D, Pugachova I, Yoffe R, and Levav I: The impact of human rights advocacy, 

mental health legislation and Psychiatric Reform on the epidemiology of involuntary 

psychiatric hospitalizations. Medicine and Law. 2006; 25: 283-295. 

98. Levinson, D, Lerner Y, Zilber N, Levav I: Prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders: Results from the 

Israel National Health Survey Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 2007; 2: 85-93. 

99.Levinson, D, Lerner Y, Zilber N, Levav I: Twelve-month service use for mental health causes: 

Results from the Israel National Mental Health Survey (INMHS). Israel Journal of Psychiatry and 

Related Sciences 2007; 2: 114-125. 

100. Levav I, Lipshitz I, Nobikov I. Kohn R. Bar-Chana M, Ponizovsky, A Werner H: Cancer risk 

among parents and siblings of patients with schizophrenia 

The British Journal of Psychiatry 2007; 190: 156-161. 

101. Levinson D, Haklai T, Stein N, Levav I: Suicide ideation, planning and attempts: 

Results from the Israel National Health Survey Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related 

Sciences 2007, 2: 136-143.



102. Vicente B, Kohn R, Levav I, Espejo F, Saldivia S, Sartorious N: Training Latin American 

primary care physicians in Chile in the diagnosis and treatment of depression. Journal of Affective 

Disorders, 98: 121-127, 2007. 

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103. Levav I, Kohn R, Billig M: The Protective Effect of Religiosity under Terrorism. Psychiatry (Spring, 2008) 

104. Levav I, Levinson D, Radomilensky I, Shemesh AA, Kohn R: Psychopathology and Other Health 

Dimensions among the Offspring of Holocaust Survivors: Results of an Epidemiological Community Study. 

Israel Journal of Psychiatry 2007; 2: 144-151. 

105. Shemesh A, Kohn R, Radomilensky I, Brodsky J, Levav I: EMOTIONAL DISTRESS AND OTHER 

HEALTH-RELATED DIMENSIONS AMONG ELDERLY SURVIVORS OF THE SHOA LIVING IN THE 

COMMUNITY Israel Journal of Psychiatry (In press). 

106. Struch N, Shereshevsky Y, Baidani-Auerbach A, Lachman M , Sagiv N, Zehavi T, Levav I: 

Attitudes, Knowledge, and Preferences of the Israeli Public Regarding Mental Health Services Israel Journal 

of Psychiatry 45:2, 128-140, 2008 

107. Struj N, Levav I Shereshevsky Y, Baidani-Auerbach A, Lachman M , Sagiv N, Zehavi T: Stigma among 

Persons Undergoing Psychiatric Care. Israel Journal of Psychiatry (In press). 

108. Barchana M, Levav I, Lipshitz I, Pugachova I, Kohn R, Weizman A, Grinshpoon A. 

Enhanced cancer risk among patients with bipolar disorder. 

Jpurnal of Affective Disorders 2008; 108: 43-48. 

109. Rodriguez J, Barret T, Narvaez S, Caldas JM, Levav I, Saxena S: Mental Health Systems in El Salvador, 

Guatemala and Nicaragua: Results of a WHO-AIMS Evaluation. Pan American Journal of Public Health 2007; 

22: 348-357. 

110. Mirsky J, Kohn R, Levav I, et al: Psychological Distress and Common Mental Disorders among 

Immigrants: Results from the Israeli-based Component of the World Mental Health Survey. Journal of Clinical 

Psychiatry 2008; 69: 1715-1720. 

111. Gal G, Kaplan G, Gross R, Levav I: Status Inconsistency and Common Mental Disorders in the 

Israel-based World Mental Health Survey, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2008; . 

43:12: 999-1003. 

112. Levav I, Kohn R, Barchana M, Lipshitz I, Pugachova I, Weitzman A, Grinshpoon 

A THE RISK FOR CANCER AMONG PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS Journal of 

Affective Disorders 2009; 114: 316-320. 

113. Razzouk D Carla Gallo, Sylvie Olifson, Ricardo Zorzetto, Fabian Fiestas, Giovanni Poletti, Guido 

Mazzotti, Itzhak Levav, Jair de Jesus Mari Mental Health Research in Latin American and Caribbean 

Countries. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 118: 490-498, 2008.



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114. Struch N, Shershevsky Y, Lachman M, Baidani-Auerbach A, Sagiv N, Zehavi T, Levav I: 

People who Cope with a Psychiatric Illness as Perceived by the Israeli Public. Society and 

Welfare 2008; 28: 9-36. (In Hebrew) 

115 Pratap S, Gallo C. Guruje O, Lamberte E, Mari JJ, Mazzotti G, Patel V, Swartz S, Olifson 

S, Levav I, de Francisco A, Saxena S. Mental Health Research Priorities in Low- and Middle- 

Income Countries of Africa, Asia Latin America and the Caribbean. 

British Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 354-363. 

116. Sharon A, Levav I, Brodsky J, Shemesh AA, Kohn R. Psychiatric Disorders and other Health 

Dimensions among Holocaust Survivors 6 Decades Later. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 331-335 

117. Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Daphna Levinson, Ilana Farbstein, Alan Apter, Itzhak Levav , Rasim 

Kanaaneh, Nechama Stein, Rachel Erhard, Hava Palti , Razek Khwaled, Alexander M. Ponizovsky The Israel 

Survey of Mental Health among Adolescents: Aims, Methods, Strengths and Limitations Israel Journal of 

Psychiatry and Related Sciences (In press). 

118. Ilana Farbstein, Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Daphna Levinson, Robert Goodman, Itzhak Levav, Itzik 

Vograft, Rasim Kanaaneh, Alexander M. Ponizovsky, David A. Brent and Alan Apter: 

Prevalence and Correlates of Mental Disorders in the Israeli Survey on Mental Health among Adolescents 

(ISMEHA) 

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (In press). 

119. Ivonne Mansbach-Kleinfeld, Ilana Farbstein, Daphna Levinson, Alan Apter, Rasim Kanaaneh, 

Hava Palti, Nabil Geraisy, David A. Brent, Alexander M. Ponizovsky, Itzhak Levav: Use of Services 

for Mental Disorders and Unmet Needs: Results from the Israel Survey on Mental Health among 

Adolescents (ISMEHA). Psychiatric Services 2010; 61:3, 241-249. 

120.Razzouk D, Sharan P, Gallo C, Gureje O, Lamberte E, Mari JJ, Patel V, 

Swartz L, Olifson S, Levav I, de Francisco A, Saxena S. Scarcity and inequity of 

mental health research resources in low-and-middle income countries: a global survey 

Journal of Health Policy (In press) 

121. Levav I, The treatment gap of depression among persons with cancer, Asian Pacific Journal of 

Cancer Prevention, (In Press). 

OTHER PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS



Editorials and Review Articles 

1. Lubchansky I (Levav): Social psychiatry. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de America 

Latina 18:3; 154-159, 1972 (in Spanish) 

2. Lubchansky I (Levav), Tarnopolsky A: Prevention of epilepsy - a socio-medical 

approach. El Día Médico 44:18; 307-309, 1973 (in Spanish) 

3. Levav I, Bilu Y: A transcultural view of Israel psychiatry. Transcultural Psychiatric 

Research Review 17:1-2; 7-36, 1980 

4. Levav I: Community psychiatry in Israel: evaluative reflections. Israel Journal of 

Psychiatry and Related Sciences 18:2; 109-118, 1981 

5. Levav I: Mortality and psychopathology following the death of an adult child: an 

epidemiological review. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 19:1; 23-28, 

1982 

6. Levav I, Gofin J: Técnicas en psiquiatría comunitaria I. La exploración preliminar de la 

comunidad. Revista de Sanidad e Higiene Pública 62:1-4; 1339-52, 1988 (in Spanish) 

7. Levav I: Second thoughts on the lethal effects of grief. Omega 20:2; 81-92, 1989-1990 

8. Levav I: La respuesta al desafío. Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría 18:2; 133-139, 

1989 (in Spanish) 

9. Levav I: Realineando los recursos. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 

35:1; 9-11, 1989 (in Spanish) 

10. Kohn R, Levav I: Bereavement in disaster: an overview. International Journal of 

Mental Health 19:2; 61-76, 1990 

11. Levav I: Bases epidemiológicas de los programas de salud mental sobre conductas 

violentas. Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 37:1; 15-23, 1991 (in 

Spanish) 

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12. Levav I: Prevención primaria en los programas de salud mental. Posible o imposible? 

Ahora o luego? Acta Psiquiátrica y Psicológica de América Latina 381- 31-34; 1992 (in 

Spanish) 

13. Levav I, Restrepo H, Guerra de Macedo C: The restructuring of psychiatric care in Latin 

America. A new policy for mental health services. Journal of Public Health Policy 15:1; 

71-85, 1994 

14. Levav I, Gonzalez R, Saraceno B: La iniciativa para la reestructuración de la atención 

psiquiátrica en América Latina. Psiquiatría Pública 8; 207-215, 1996 (in Spanish)



15. Levav I, Guerrero R, Phebo L, Coe G, Cerqueira MT: Reducing corporal punishment of 

children: a call for a regional effort. Bulletin of PanAmerican Health Organization 30; 

70-79, 1996 

16. Levav I, Lerner, Y: Psychiatric epidemiology in Israel. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and 

Related Sciences 34; 126-127,1997 

17. Levav I, Kohn R, Schwartz, S: The psychiatric after-effects of the Holocaust on the 

second generation. Psychological Medicine 28:4; 755-760, 1998 

18. Levav I: Mental health at the threshold of the new millennium. Acta Psiquiátrica y 

Psicológica de América Latina 45:3; 207-109, 1999 (in Spanish) 

19. Mark M, Levav I: World Health Day on April 7, 2001 the theme is mental health. Israel 


20. Levav, I., Rutz, W: The WHO World Health Report 2001: New Understanding-New 

Hope. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 39:1; 50-56, 2002 

21. Rodriguez J, Bergonzoli G, Levav I: Mental health and political violence in Guatemala. 

Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina 48; 1-4, 2002 (in Spanish) 

22. Levav I: What to teach with regard to mental health in an MPH program? Public Health 

Reviews 30:1-4; 365-374, 2002 

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23. Levav I: The WHO draft manual on mental health legislation. Psychiatric Services 54:1; 

108; author reply 109; discussion 109-110, 2003 

24. Levav I, Grinshpoon A: Beds in mental hospitals or beds in general hospitals. Where 

should they be located? Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 41: 157-159, 

2004 

25. Levav I, Grinshpoon A: Mental health services in Israel. International Psychiatry 4; 10- 

14, 2004 

26. Levav I: Mental health; a public health priority. Revista de la Maestria en Salud 

Publica. 1; 1, 2003 (in Spanish). Available at: htpp://maestria.rec.uba/revista 

27. Gulbinat W, Manderscheid R, Baingana F, Jenkins R, Khandelwal S, Levav I, Lieh Mak 

F, Mayeya J, Minoletti A, Mubbashar MH, Srinivasa Murthy R, Parameshvara Deva M, 

Schilder K, Tomov T, Baba A, Townsend C, Whiteford H: The International 

Consortium on Mental Health Policy and Services: objectives, design and project 

implementation. International Review of Psychiatry 16:1-2: 5-17, 2004 

28. Saraceno B, Levav I, Kohn R The public health significance of research on 

schizophrenia and depression .World Psychiatry 4:3, 181-185, 2005



29. Levav I, Lachman M: On the way to the psychiatric reform in Israel: notes for an 

ideological and scientific debate. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 42: 

3, 198-206, 2005. 

30. Levav I, Levinson D, Lerner Y: Poverty and Psychiatric Disorders: A Case for Action. 

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences. 42:4, 221-222, 2005. 

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31 Abramovitz M, Greenberg D, Levav I Treatment gap in mental health care Israel 

Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 45: 2, 2008 

Letters to the Editor 

1. Abramson J.H, Levav I: Use of symptom inventories as measures of emotional ill-health in 

epidemiological studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 7:4; 381-382, 1978 

2. Kohn R, Levav I: PTSD an explanation for affective disorder among Jews: a critique. 

History of Psychiatry 11:43 Pt 3; 339-343, 2000 

3. Levav I, Ponizovsky A: Psychiatric consequences of September 11. JAMA 288; 2683, 

2002 

4. Saxena S, Levav I, Maulik P, Saraceno B: How international are the editorial boards of 

leading psychiatry journals? Lancet 361; 609, 2003 

5. Van Ommeren M, Levav I: Mortality in parents after the death of a child. Lancet 361; 

1742, 2003 

6. Levav I, Grinshpoon A, Nobikov I, Ponizovsky A: Reaction of New Yorkers to the 9/11 

Events. American Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 161:2136-2137. 

7. Levav I, Ponizovsky A, Grinshpoon A. Cancer and schizophrenia: an unfinished research 

issue. British Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 188, 191. 

8. Monteiro, M, Levav I.: EU Alcohol Policies and Free Trade: Consequence beyond its Borders. 

Lancet 2006; 368:580. 

Comments 

1. Levav I. Terrorism and its Effects on Mental Health World Psychiatry 2006; 5:1, 35-36. 

Books 

1. Aviram U, Levav I (eds). Community Mental Health in Israel. Tel Aviv: Cherikover, 1981 (in 

Hebrew)



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2. Gonzalez Uzcategui R, Levav I (eds): Reestructuración de la atención psiquiatrica : bases 

conceptuales y guías para su implementación [The Restructuring of Psychiatric Care: 

Conceptual Bases and Guides for its Implementation] Washington, DC, Pan American Health 

Organization/WHO, 1991 (in Spanish) 

3. Levav I (ed): Themes of Mental Health in the Community. Washington, DC, Pan American 

Health Organization, 1993 (in Spanish) 

4. Cabral de Mello M., Bornemann, T., Levav I (eds): Mental Health - World Health Ministers 

Call for Action. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2001 

5. Sharan P, Levav I, Olifson S, de Francisco A, Saxena S (eds.) : Research Capacity for 

Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Results of a Mapping Exercise. 

Global Forum for Health Research and World Health Organization, Geneva 2007. 

6. Levav I (ed). Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Israel. From Epidemiology to Mental 

Health Action. Geffen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2009. 

Other publications 

1. Chelala C, Levav I, Vargas, M, Ayala G: The hour of peace:human development and mental 

health. Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC 1994, 34 pp. (In Spanish). 

Book Chapters 

1. Goldenberg M, Lubchansky I (Levav): Mental Health, in (Sonis A, ed) Salud Pública y 

Medicina Administrativa, Vol. I, Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1971 (in Spanish) 

2. Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout PE: Screening Scales from the Psychiatric Epidemiology 

Research Interview PERI, in (Myers JK. Weissman, MM, Ross CE, eds) Epidemiologic 

Community Survey, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986 

3. Levav I, Aviram U: Epidemiologic Community Surveys in Israel: An Updated Review, in 

(Myers JK. Weissman, MM, Ross CE, eds) Epidemiologic Community Survey, New 

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986 

4. Levav I, Lubner M, Adler I: The Bereaved Parents of Adult Children. A Case for Study, in 

(Margolis OS. Kutscher AS, Marcus ER, Raether HC, Pine VR. Seeland IB, Cherico DJ, 

eds) Grief and the Loss of an Adult Child, Foundation of Thanatology Series, Vol. 8. New 

York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1988 

5. Restrepo H, Amate A, Anzola Perez E, Nicholls E, Levav I: Los Sistemas Locales de Salud y 

la Salud del Adulto, in (Paganini JM, Capote Mir R, eds) Los Sistemas Locales de Salud, 

Conceptos, Métodos, Experiencias, Washington, DC: Organización Panamericana de la 

Salud, 1990 (in Spanish)



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6. Kramer M, Simonsick E, Lima B, Levav I: The Epidemiological Basis for Mental Health 

Care in Primary Health Care. A Case for Action, in (Cooper B, Eastwood R, eds) Primary 

Health Care and Psychiatric Epidemiology, London: Routledge, 1992 

7. Levav I, Kohn R: Social economic level as a determinant of mental illness and schizophrenia 

in particular [Nivel socio-económico como determinante de los trastornos mentales en 

general y las esquizofrenias en particular], in (Asociación Murciana de Salud Mental ed.) 

Las Esquizofrenias Hoy: XII Jornadas Nacionales de La AEN. Muricia, Spain: Tip. San 

Francisco, pp. 163-166, 1996 (in Spanish) 

8. Levav I: Individuals Under Conditions of Maximum Adversity: The Holocaust, in 

(Dohrenwend BP, ed) Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology, New York: Oxford 

University Press, pp. 13-33, 1998. 

9. Levav I, Gonzalez R: Dos Movimientos Paralelos: Las Reformas en la Atención Psiquiátrica 

en América Latina y en España, in (Garcia J, Espino A, Lara L, eds.) La Psiquiatría en la 

España de Fin de Siglo, Madrid: Diaz de Santos, 1998 (in Spanish) 

10. Struch N, Shershevsky Y, Baidani-Auerbach A, Lachman M, Sagiv N, Zehavi T, Levav I, Alperovich Sh: The 

Reduction of Stigma. An Instrument to Enable Access and Inclusion in Society for People with Mental 

Disability. In: Feldman D, Danieli Lahav Y, Haimovitz Sh (eds) The Accessibility of The Israeli Society for 

Persons with Disability on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Ministry of Justice, State of Israel. 

Governmental Publishing Agency, Jerusalem 2007. pp.821-854. 

11. Mari JJ, Garcia de Oliveira Soares B, Silva de Lima, Levav I : Breve Hisoria de 

la Epidemiologia Psiquiatrica en America Latina y el Caribe en Rodriguez JJ, Kohn 

R, Ailar-Gaxiola S (eds) Epidemiologa de los Trastornos Mentales en America Latina 

y el Caribe. 2009; Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, Washington DC. pp. 3-18. 

(Spanish) 

12. Kohn R, Levav I: La Utilizacion de los Servicios de Salud Mental y la Brecha 

de Tratamiento en America Latina y el Caribe. op.cit. pp. 300-315. 

13. Saldivia S, Vicente B, Kohn R, Levav I: La Epidemiologia de los Trastornos 

Psiquiatricos en la Atencion Primaria de Salud op.cit. pp. 316-325. 

Journal - Guest Editor 

1. Roskin M, Levav I: Special Issue - Grief and Bereavement. Israel Journal of Psychiatry 

and Related Sciences 24:1-2, 1987 

2. Levav I, Aviram U: Special Issue - Community Mental Heath in Israel, Israel Journal of 

Psychiatry and Related Sciences 15:3, 1997 

Book Reviews 

1. Levav I: Gaviria M, De Leon OA, Depression, Clinical Aspects and Treatment. Bulletin of the 

Pan - American Health Organization, 106:6, 554, 1988 (Spanish)



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2. Levav I: Caplan G, Population-Oriented Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 

1991 

3. Levav I: Langer LL, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, Journal of Nervous and 

Mental Disease, 180:2, 136, 1992 

4. Levav I: Sartorius N, Gaebel W, Lopez Ibor JJ, Maj M (eds), Psychiatry in Society, 

Chichester, Wiley, 2000. Human Nature Review 431-432, 2002 

5. Levav I, Greenberg D: Steering Committee on Mental Health: Plan on the organization of 

mental health services in the occupied Palestinian territory. Jerusalem, February 2005 

(mimeo).Israel Journal of Psychiatry.2005 

6. Levav I Ministry of Health. Suicide in Israel. Israel Journal of Psychiatry.42:4, 291-292, 2005. 

7. Levav I: Leff J, Warner R. Social Inclusion of People with Mental Illness. Israel Journal of 

Psychiatry 2006; 43: 306-307 

8. Levav I: Mental Health in Israel, Statistical Annual 2006. Israel Journal of Psychiatry (in 

Press). 

9. Levav I: Hopper K, Janca A, Sartorius N. Recovery. Israel Journal of Psychiatry 45:8:65-66, 

2008 

Non-Peer Reviewed Journals 

1. Kohn R, Levav I, Donaire Garcia I, Machuca E, Tamashiro R: Post-traumatic 

reactions as a consequence of Hurricane Mitch: an epidemiological study in 

Tegucigalpa, Honduras [Reacciones postraumáticos a consecuencia del huracán 

Mitch: un estudio epidemiológico en Tegucigalpa, Honduras]. Atopos 1: June; 27- 

35, 2003 (in Spanish) 

GRANTS 

Principal Investigator - Peer Reviewed 

1. Schizophrenia and Ethnicity 

Ministry of Health, Israel 

Responsible Investigator 

$3,000 (US) 

1982-1983 

2. Dropouts from a Community Clinic 

Miphal Hapais, Israel 

Responsible Investigator

$2,500 (US) 

1984-1985 



3. Social Selection-Social Causation and Mental Disorders 

National Institute of Mental Health, USA 

Co-Principal Investigator: Levav I 

$1,700,000 (US) 

1982-1987 

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4. The Perception of Mental Illness, the Mentally Ill and Help-Seeking Practices among Soviet 

Immigrants 

Falk Institute for Mental Health and Behavioral Studies 

Principal Investigators: Levav I, Kohn R, Lerner Y 

$3,000 (US) 

1985-1986 

5. Israeli Reactions to Missile Attacks During the Gulf War, R03MH48979 

National Institute of Mental Health 

Principal Investigator: Levav I, Co-Principal Investigator: Dohrenwend BP 

Investigators: Naveh G, Shrout PE, Schwartz S, Kohn R, Skodol AE, Link BG, Stueve AC 

Budget $50,000 (US) 

1991-1992 

6. Israeli Reactions to SCUD Attacks During the Gulf War, 1R01MH51208-01 

National Institute of Mental Health 

Principal Investigator: Dohrenwend BP, Co-Principal Investigator: Levav I 

Investigators: Kohn R, Link BG, Naveh G, Schwartz S, Shrout PE, Skodol AE, Stueve AC. 

1993-1994 

7. The Effect of Bereavement on Cancer Inception and Demise, 1R01CA62451-01 

Principal Investigator I Levav 

Subcontract: Iscovich I, Project Director: Kohn R 

Consultants: Shrout PE, Tsai WY, Abramson JH 

National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA 

Budget $50,000 (US) 

1994-1995 

8. Epidemiology of the Youth 

National Health Institute - Israel 


$50,000 (US) 

2003-2005 

9. Psychiatric Epidemiology in Israel 


Principal Investigator: Levav I

$1,000,000 (US) 

2002-2005 



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10. The Relative Weight of Social Causation and Social Selection in the Etiology of Schizophrenia 

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) 

Principal Investigator: Kohn R 


Budget $100,000 

2003 – 2005 

Non-Principal Investigator Grants 

1. Psychosis in a Guatemalan Indigenous Population 

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) 

Principal Investigator: Kohn R 

Consultant: Levav I 

1998-2000 

2. Attitudes to Mental Illness 



2002-2005 

3. Schizophrenia among the Bedouins. Methodological Phase 

National Health Institute – Israel 

Principal Investigator: Al-Krenawi A. 


2005-2006

LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION 



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Dr. B.P. Dohrenwend - Columbia University, USA 

Dr. Leon Eisenberg – Harvard University, USA 

Dr. Arthur Kleinman – Harvard University, USA 

Dr. Lars Jacobsson – Umea University, Sweden 

Dr. Norman Sartorius - University of Geneva, Switzerland 

Dr. Benedetto Saraceno – World Health Organization, Geneva, 

Switzerland 

Dr. J. Arboleda-Florez – Queens University, Canada 

Dr. P.E. Shrout – New York University, USA 

Dr. A Weizman – Tel Aviv University, Israel 

Sir George Alleyne – Pan American Health Organization, USA

PERSONAL INFORMATION 



Date of Birth: February 11, 1939 

Citizenship: Argentina, Israel 

Marital Status: Married. Two children 

Former Name: I. L. Lubchansky 

Languages Spanish, Hebrew 

Home Address: 9 Hamelitz Street Apt 2 

Jerusalem 93116 

Israel 

Tel: 972-2-5618436 

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