Miriam Schiff, (PhD. MSW, MA) is a Professor and Zena Harman Chair in Social Work at Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is also the chair of the Baerwald school and Hadassah university medical center research group on social work in health care. Her research interests are in (a) the moderators and mediator factors explaining the associations between man-made trauma and substance use as well as other health and mental health indicators among children and adolescents; (b) rehabilitation and grief and bereavement among veterans and their families; (c) social work in health care; (d) translational research from academic research to the field of social work, and from practice wisdom to theories and research in the areas of social work in health and mental health care.