Uri Aviram
Uri Aviram (; born March 19, 1936, in Haifa) is Zena Harman Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In January 2016 he was appointed as the Dean of the School of social and community Sciences at Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. He retired in 2017, continuing research on mental health policy and services. Academic work Aviram earned a bachelor’s degree in history and education from Hebrew University in 1962 and a MSW from Wayne State University in 1966. After getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, the focus of his academic work was mental health services research, policy studies and social work education. More recently he has conducted research on mental health reforms, the interface between psychiatry and law, and social work education. He has published in Israeli, American, and European journals. Social work program He designed and established the social work program at Ruppin Academic Center in Israel and was the chairperson of the program during 2014-2015. Between 2007 and 2011 Prof. Aviram served as the chairperson of Israel National Council for the Rehabilitation in the Community of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities. During the 1990s he headed the School of