Professor Shai Linn is the Director of the Unit of Clinical Epidemiology at Rambam Health Care Campus. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor Linn received Master of Public Health (MPH, 1979) and Doctor of Public Health (DrPH, 1981) degrees from Harvard School of Public Health. He was then appointed as a Deputy Director of the Rambam Hospital (1982-1985). This was followed by a fellowship at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in 1985-1986 and selection as Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. In 1990-1992 Professor Linn received the prestigious MacArthur – SSRC Fellowship, and was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Professor Linn's main research interests are epidemiological methodology for measuring health.