Alex Altshuler Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors

Alex Altshuler Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors

Profile Details

Name: Alex Altshuler

Email: alex.altshuler@gmail.com

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: Member-at-Large

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa, Israel

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW): UNDRR E-STAG

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees): BA in Behavioral Sciences, MA in Social Sciences and Humanitarian Affairs, MSW, PhD in Health Sciences, Pot-Doc in Government Studies

Languages written and spoken (fluently): English, Hebrew, Russian and Belarussian

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice):

Teaching: resilience, sustainability, research methods, international social work, organizations in social work, disaster risk reduction

Research: resilience, sustainability and UN Sustainable Development Goals, disaster risk reduction, emergency management, partnerships, inter-sector cooperation, local emergency preparedness, international social work, policy learning, wellbeing, post-disaster and post-war psycho-social interventions

Practice: working with immigrants in crisis, science and educational policy, challenges of future social work, post-disaster psycho-social interventions, fostering sustainability through community empowerment