Ameed Saabneh updated Dec, 2016

AMEED SAABNEH

ADDRESS
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, Haifa
Israel, 31905
E-Mail: asaabneh @soc.haifa.ac.il
Tel: +972 (4) 824-9640
EDUCATION
2014-2016 / Kreitman Post-doctoral fellowship, Ben-Gurion University
2013-2014 / Lady Davis Post-doctoral fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2013 / Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Health Inequalities
Committee: Michel Guillot (chair), Irma T. Elo, Jere R. Behrman
2007- 2009 / Department of Sociology, Graduate School, UW-Madison
1999- 2003 / M.A. Statistics, University of Haifa
1997- 2001 / M.A. Psychology, University of Haifa
1993-1996 / B.A. Statistics and Psychology (Double Major), University of Haifa
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in refereed journals
Ameed Saabneh. (2016). “The effect of maternal employment on child survival: the case of India”. Asian Journal of Population. DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2016.1239412.
Ameed Saabneh. (2016). “Arab-Jewish gap in life expectancy in Israel”. The European Journal of Public Health, 26(3), 443–438. http://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv211
Ameed Saabneh. (2015). “Ethnic health inequalities in unequal societies: morbidity gaps between Palestinians and Jews in Israel.” European Journal of Population 31(4): 445-466. DOI: 10.1007/s10680-015-9349-x.
Ameed Saabneh. 2014. “Christian-Muslim Differences in Child Survival in Egypt”. Journal of Population Research 31(3): 253-267. DOI 10.1007/s12546-014-9132-6.
Guillot, Michel, Patrick Gerland, François Pelletier, and Ameed Saabneh. 2012. “Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data” edited by Peter Byass. PLoS Medicine 9(8):e1001299.
Na’amnih, Wasef, Khitam Muhsen, Jalal Tarabeia, Ameed Saabneh, and Manfred S Green. 2010. “Trends in the gap in life expectancy between Arabs and Jews in Israel between 1975 and 2004.” International Journal of Epidemiology 39(5):1324–32.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS
2014-2017 / Principle Investigator (funded)
Individual Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation ($41,000)
Project title: ethnic and regional inequalities in mortality in Israel
2014-2016 / Kreitman Post-doctoral fellowship, Ben-Gurion University
2013-2014 / Lady Davis postdoctoral fellowship, Hebrew University
2009-2013 / Graduate Student Fellowship, UPenn
2007-2009 / Fulbright Scholarship Program
2000 / MA Thesis was sponsored by the Jewish-Arabic Center, University of Haifa
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2016, Oct / Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Haifa University
2015-2016 / Adjunct professor, Birzeit University, Palestine
PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
March 2016 /

Saabneh, Ameed. “Consequences of the 1948 Displacement on the Occupational Status of the Second Generation of the Internally Displaced Persons in Israel” Poster presented at the Population Association of America,2016 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, March 31-April 2.

December 2015 /

Organized a workshp about “The Palestinian Society: New Research Horizons” as part of “The 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy”. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. (In callboration with Dr. Mtanes Shihadeh).

September 2015 /

Saabneh, Ameed. “Tends in the contribution of various causes of death Arab-Jewish gap in life expectancy”. Paper accepted for presentation at the workshop of the EAPS Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group 2015. Prague, Czech Republic, September 16-18.

June 2015 / Saabneh, Ameed. “Sources of ethnic mortality gaps in Israeli society: the role of the health care system”. Paper accepted for presentation at the conference of 20 Years for The National Health Insurance Law: a critical appraisal (Hebrew). Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University, June 28-30
May 2015 / Saabneh, Ameed. “Consequences of the 1948 displacement on the socioeconomic status of second and third generations of the internally displaced persons in Israel” Paper accepted for presentation at the RC28 meeting 2015. Tilburg, TheNetherlands, May 28-30.
2014 / Saabneh, Ameed. "Religious differences in child survival in Egypt" Paper presented at theEuropean Population Conference2014. Budapest, Hungary, June 25-28.
2014 / Saabneh, Ameed. "Ethnic-Religious differences in child Survival in Egypt." Poster presented at thePopulation Association of America,2012 Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, May 1-3.
2013 / Saabneh, Ameed. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child Survival—the Case of India." Paper presented at thePopulation Association of America2013 Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA April 11-13.
Saabneh, Ameed. "Trends in the Arab-Jewish Life Expectancy Gap in Israel, 1975-2008." Poster presented at thePopulation Association of America,2013 Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA April 11-13.
2012 / Saabneh, Ameed. “Health inequalities between Arabs and Jews in Israel: the impact of minority status and socioeconomic position.” Paper presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, May 2012
2011 / Saabneh, Ameed. “Health inequalities between Arabs and Jews in Israel: the impact of minority status and socioeconomic position.” Paper presented at the Summer 2011 meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Iowa City, Iowa, August 2011
2010 / Invited participant, workshop on “Formal Demography: Mortality Analysis and Forecasting”, organized by The Center for Population Research and the Center for the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, Stanford University, December 2010
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Population Association of America (PAA)
Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28), International Sociological Association (ISA)
Palestinian Association for Sociology and Anthropology
Israel Sociological Society