Keynote Speaker - Prof. Bernard Black
The impact of health insurance on healthcare utilization and health: Evidence from Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin
Bernard Black is Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University, with positions in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management, Department of Finance, and the Institute for Policy Research. His research areas include health policy and medical malpractice, empirical methods for causal inference, law and finance, and international corporate governance. Recent book: Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works; Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped (Cato Institute 2021, with David Hyman, Myungho Paik, William Sage, and Charles Silver). He is the founding Chairman of the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (2006-2016), a founding editor of the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has run, since 2010, an annual summer workshop at Northwestern. He is among the leading empirical legal scholars in the U.S., with over 150 published articles and over 31,000 citations on Google Scholar.
Keynote Speaker - Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg
Pre- and post-war challenges to Israel healthcare system
Manuel Trajtenberg is a Professor (Emeritus) of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and Senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute of the Technion. Previous public positions: Chairman
of the National Economic Council at the Prime Minister’s Office (2006-09), Chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education (2009-2014), Chairman of the Committee for Socio-economic Change (2011), and member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament (2015-17).
Manuel Trajtenberg is currently engaged in drafting a progressive socio-economic agenda for Israel, to address some of the most pressing social challenges of these troubled times. He is a
professor of economics, a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party, and held prominent positions in the public sector. Manuel is married to Dr. Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel, they have three daughters and four grandchildren.
BGU - CHER Event
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Highlights from the Event
Setting the stage for a day of insightful discussions on health economics and policy challenges in Israel.
the opening session brought together senior university leadership, HMO executives, and government policymakers to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue on the future of the healthcare system.
