Personal Details

Name: Dr. Adi Niv-Yagoda

Date and place of birth: Jan 22nd 1979, Israel

Address: Balfour 61/12, Tel-Aviv

Cellular telephone: 054-9986050

Email: [email protected]

Higher Education

Academic Position in Institutes of Higher Education

Additional Roles and Recognitions

• Vice Dean of Health Services Management School at Netanya Academic College.
• Member at Council for Experiments of Animal – Representative of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2021–Present).
• Leader in Medical Law (Israel) – Legal Awards 2021, Acquisition International (AI).

Employment History

2006 – Present Advisor to health organizations in health policy, strategy and medical law.

Private law firm specializing in medical law.

2005-2006 Law Internship – Dr. A. Rubinstein & S. Yakirevich, Law Firm (Medical Malpractice).

2002-2005 Senior tutor at National Center for Medical Simulation, Tel Hashomer Hospital. I worked in the training of doctors, nurses, paramedics and first aid officers in the following projects: Qualification exams for paramedics (M.D.A., I.D.F.), training interns prior to entry into departments (together with the deans of the faculties of medicine in Israel and the National Internship Committee), training ER teams from all hospitals around the country and drafting IDF training scenarios.

2002. Lecturer – emergency medicine at Teva, Israel Police Department and the Ministry of Education.

Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

2021: Leader in Medical Law (Israel) at Legal awards 2021 on behalf of Acquisition International (AI)

2021: Outstanding Lecturers of 2020-2021 Academic Year, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

2020: Outstanding Lecturers of 2019-2020 Academic Year, Ziva Tal Academic School of Nursing, Sheba.

2013: Outstanding Lecturers of 2012-2013 Academic Year, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Activities outside the Institution of Higher Education

1. Member of Committee to Strengthen the Public Healthcare System in Israel ("German Committee"), headed by Minister of Health (2013–2014).
   In 2013, the Minister of Health appointed an Advisory Board for Strengthening the Public Health System, including 13 leading professionals from various fields, which will assess various issues confronting the health system, analyze them and formulate a series of recommendations and solutions for the purpose of strengthening the public health system. The following aspects, among others considered: (1) Assessment of the relationship between public medicine and private medicine, and between public expenditure and national and private expenditure in the field of health. (2) Health insurance (supplementary insurance and commercial insurances). (3) Medical tourism. (4) The standing involved of the Ministry of Health as a service provider, insurer and regulator, and the issue of separation of roles.
2. Member of Committee: Medical Insurance in Israel (Ministry of Health, 2013–2014).
   As part of the German Committee, a subcommittee was established to map the health insurance market in Israel, and to propose regulatory rules.
3. Member of Committee: Definition of Service Doctrine of the Health System (Ministry of Health, 2015).
   Ministry of Health appointed a committee whose purpose is to define the theory of service and the patient's experience in the health system. The duties of the committee were: defining the service theory of the health system; Recommendation on the method of assimilation in the field among treatment teams; A recommendation on the integration of the students' core studies and a recommended method of training; Conduct a pilot to examine the effectiveness of the recommendations
4. Member of Committee: Improving the Patient's Experience in the Emergency Room (Ministry of Health, 2015).
   There is a huge patient load on the hospitalization system, which is in need of additional resources, particularly in emergency rooms. Ministry of Health appointed a team of experts in order to draft a recommendations how to Improving the Patient's Experience in the Emergency Room.
5. Member of Committee: Definition of a Code of Ethics for the Use and Integration of Information in the Health System (Ministry of Health, 2016).
   Ministry of Health appointed a team of experts in order to draft a recommendation for an ethical convention for the use of health information, and the management rules for the secondary use of health information.
6. Member of Committee: Ethics and Public Participation for Personalized Medicine (Ministry of Health 2017).
   Ministry of Health appointed a team of experts in order to draft a recommendation for an Ethics rules and Public Participation for Personalized Medicine.
7. Member of Committee: cooperation Patients in decision making (Ministry of Health 2018-2019).
   Ministry of Health appointed a team of experts to recommend on rules and methodology to increase the participation of patients in decision-making procedures in the health system.
8. Special Chief Prosecutor of the Civil Investigation Committee to examine the Ministry of Finance's policy for the State Health Insurance Law (2019).
   The following aspects were examined: (1) The State of the Acute Care Hospitalization System in Israel. (2) Personnel and infrastructure of the healthcare system. (3) Budget model of advanced technologies and drugs.
9. Member of the core team in the planning of the National Master Plan for the Health System (Ministry of Finance 2019).
   The National Master Plan for Healthcare Institutions — TAMA 49 – was jointly initiated by the Ministry of Health and by the Ministry of Finance's Israel Planning Administration. The plan is tasked to outline the construction and development of healthcare institutions nation wide by the year 2048, Israel's one hundredth anniversary.
10. Member of National MoH COVID-19 Expert Advisory Panel (2020–2022).
    As part of dealing with the Corona crisis, the Israeli government established Magen Israel, which also included the establishment of a professional Corona cabinet. The Corona Cabinet was composed of 13 experts with unique knowledge and expertise, and its purpose is to advise and assist in leading the national effort.
11. Member of Committee for a new regulation of rules for advertising, marketing and health information (2021).
    Recommendation for new rules, budgets and effective regulation for competition between health maintenance organizations (HMOs).
12. Member of Committee to Strengthen the Public Healthcare System in Israel ("Ash Committee"), headed by Health Minister Director-General (2022).
    In 2022, the Minister of Health appointed an Advisory Board for Strengthening the Public Health System, including 15 leading professionals from various fields, which will assess various issues confronting the health system, analyze them and formulate a series of recommendations and solutions for the purpose of strengthening the public health system.

Publications

A. Ph.D Dissertation

Between 'choice' and 'equality' in the public health system: What is the proper balance?
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018).
Supervisors: Prof. Nadav Davidovitch and Prof. Gabi Ben-Nun.

B. Scientific Articles – Published

1. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2007. "The ability to obtain informed consent from minors, and particularly, from dying minors", Harefuah, Vol. 147, Issue F, p. 459. [Hebrew]
2. Niv-Yagoda, A, Katznelson, E. 2010. "Legal and psychologists to make decisions about medical care for children in situations of disagreement between the parents," HaMishpat Volume 15 (2), p. 551. [Hebrew]
3. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2012. "Participation minors in a medical procedures – Gertie to interpret a particular episode," Medicine and Law, Volume 45. [Hebrew]
4. Niv-Yagoda, A .2014. Breaking the stigma – HIV and human rights, Judgments insights 27, 5-20. [Hebrew]
5. Niv-Yagoda, A, Weiss A. 2015. A policy of "permanent rejection" of receiving blood donation from men who have had sex with men – maintaining public health or improper discrimination? Judgments insights 45. [Hebrew]
6. Niv-Yagoda, A.2015. The Boundaries of Freedom of Patient Choice within the Public Health System, Medicine and Law 2015. [Hebrew]
7. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2016. The Principle of Mutuality — Caregivers' Disclosure Duty, Patients' Responsibilities, and the 'Duty to Inform', Alei Mishpat – The Law Review of The College of Law & Business, Pp.183. [Hebrew]
8. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2018. Macroeconomic Assessment When introducing a new drug into the basket of health services, Medic, Pp. 62. [Hebrew]
9. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2018. Analytical Framework for the Resolution of Conflicts and Crises in the Israeli Health System, International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution, Issue 1.
10. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2020. Association between trust in the public healthcare system and selecting a surgeon in public hospitals in Israel: a cross-sectional population study. Isr J Health Policy Res 9, 38 (2020).
11. Angel, Y., Niv-Yagoda, A. & Gamzu, R. Adapting the Israeli national health insurance law to the 21st century– a report from the 19th Dead Sea Conference. Isr J Health Policy Res 10, 1 (2021).
12. Barnea, R., Niv-Yagoda, A. & Weiss, Y. Changes in the activity levels and financing sources of Israel's private for-profit hospitals in the wake of reforms to the public-private divide. Isr J Health Policy Res 10, 23 (2021). (Royi Barnea and Adi Niv-Yagoda contributed equally to this work)
13. Niv-Yagoda A, "Human Relations" as a Basis for Proper and professional Medical Care and Strengthening Public Trust in the Public Health System. Medicine and Law (Refuah U'Mishpat). 2021; 52, 107-119. [Hebrew].
14. Niv-Yagoda A, Gilbar, R. 2022. The case of the replacement of the embryos: should the court give priority to the genetic affinity or to the physiological affinity? Tguviot Mishpat, TAU Law Review ('Iyunei Mishpat') 2022. [Hebrew].
15. Niv-Yagoda A, Barnea R and Rubinshtein Zilberman E. 2022. The role of models as a decision-making support tool rather than a guiding light in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Front. Public Health 10:1002440 (2022).
16. Gilbar, R., Niv-Yagoda A. 2023. The Asuta affair – is it over or not? Tguviot Mishpat, TAU Law Review ('Iyunei Mishpat') 2023. [Hebrew].
17. Niv-Yagoda, A., Goldshtein, H. Trends and changes in the relationship between quality and price in tenders for healthcare services in the Israeli health system, 2013–2023. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 1596 (2024).
18. Angel Y; Goldshtein H,; Barel N ; Fire G; Halberthal M and Niv-Yagoda A, Trends in Israel's Medical Administration subspecialty, 1987–2022. Isr J Health Policy Res 14, 3 (2025).

C. Books

1. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2024. Epidemic of Distrust. Discussions on Trust, Equality and Choice in Israel's Health System. Focus Publishing Ltd. [Hebrew]

D. Chapters in Scientific Books – Published

1. Niv-Yagoda, A, Peleg, G. 2013. Issues and dilemmas at the end of life, Tntology, Scientific loss, bereavement and grief: Selected Topics (eds: Haniya Shannon Klein, Shulamith Kreitler and Kreitler container), Pardes Publishing. [Hebrew]
2. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2019. The Patient, the Caregiver and the Bridge Between Them. In Partnership in Healthcare: The Patient, the Caregiver and the Bridge Between Them (Shafran-Tikva, Sigal, Joshua Shemer, and Yossi Weiss eds.), Jerusalem: Magnes Press. [Hebrew]
3. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2021. Access to information or commercial marketing of health services? The limits of what is allowed and what is forbidden. The Patient Rights Law, The Incomplete Revolution (Editors: Joshua Shemer, Shmuel Ben-Yaacov and Yossi Weiss eds.), Yedioth Ahronoth Press. [Hebrew]

E. Articles in Magazines of Professional Associations

1. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2009. "Positions of minors with respect to the right to participation in the medical process", Israeli Oncological Nursing Newsletter, Vol. 18(1) (March 2009), p. 6. [Hebrew]
2. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2009. "Socio-Legal Analysis of the Right to Participation, the Positions of Minors with Life-Threatening Diseases", Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (2009). [Hebrew]
3. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2009. "Disease — Part of Me or a Battle Story", Medicine, No. 12 (2009). [Hebrew]
4. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2010. "The evidentiary damage Obstetrics and Gynecology," Israeli Journal of Ob / Gyn, Volume 70. [Hebrew]
5. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2010., "The medical record as a tool to reduce exposure to legal risks," Israel Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology, Volume 7. [Hebrew]
6. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2010. "The obligation to offer treatments and tests though not included in the health basket," Israeli Journal of Ob / Gyn, Volume 71. [Hebrew]
7. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2011. "The duty of disclosure – the winds of change?" Israeli Journal of Ob / Gyn, Volume 73. [Hebrew]
8. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2010. "Medical confidentiality in relation to venereal disease contagious", Israeli Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology | No. 9 [Hebrew]
9. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2010. "Expectations as a basis for informed consent aesthetic medicine", Israeli Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology | No. 8. [Hebrew]
10. Niv-Yagoda, A. 2011. "Accepted practice and preventive measures suspect goes before a newborn macrosomia", Israeli Ob / Gyne Journal, Volume 74, pp. 37. [Hebrew]

F. Conferences

In recent years I have participated in a large number of academic and professional conferences. Because of the large number of conferences, I will present only some of the conferences in which I took part (leading or giving a lecture).

1. Dead Sea Conference – The Israel National Institute For Health Policy Research.
   The top of the health system in Israel from all sectors participates in the conferences and they serve as a platform for exchanging opinions, drawing conclusions, reaching agreements and formulating recommendations. The 20th Dead Sea Conference: The Corona Pandemic, Chairman Yonatan Halevi (2021); The 19th Dead Sea Conference: 25 years of the State Health Insurance Law, Chairman Roni Gamzo (2019); The 18th Dead Sea Conference: Professional Responsibility – Time for Reform? Chairman Avi Israeli (2018); The 17th Dead Sea Conference: The Patient at the Center: A Challenge in the New Era, Chairman Avi Israeli (2017); The 16th Dead Sea Conference: Health Data – Call for Series, Chairman Avi Israeli (2016); The 15th Dead Sea Conference: Redesigning the Health Systems, Chairman Haim Bitterman (2015).
2. The Center for the Training and Education of Judges – Health, Medicine and Law.
   The center provides training and continuing education for judges and registrars, and assessment for judicial candidates (11.3.2019; 2.11.2016; 20.6.2016).
3. Professional unions.
   Union of Psychiatrists (16.12.2021); Association of Family Physicians (27.1.2022; 3.4.2018); Association of Public Health Physicians (6.3.2019); Association of Hospital Directors (26.7.2021); Israel Ophthalmological Society (14.3.2024); Israel Neonatal Society (9.7.2024)
4. Pharma companies.
   Johnson & Johnson Israel (7.5.2023); MedTech Israel (18.12.2023)

Research Grants