Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences- University of Haifa

The Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences was established during the academic year 1996. Until 2006, the Faculty operated under the name of Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies. At this point, the name was changed to Sciences in order to reflect the high disciplinary development undergone by all the departments and schools comprising the Faculty. The Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences comprises of the School of Social Work, the Department of Human Resources, and the Department of Occupational Therapy, the Department of Nursing, the Department of Gerontology, the Department of Physical Therapy, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the School of Public Health, the Department of Community Mental Health, and the School of Creative Art Therapies. Today, the faculty confers bachelor‘s degrees in six of its academic units (Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nursing, Human Resources, Medical Imaging, and Communication Sciences and Disorders); master‘s degrees in ten academic programs (Public Health: MPH, MHA and MAN degrees; and MAs in: Gerontology, Social Work, Community Mental Health, Creative Art Therapies, Nursing, Human Resources, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Communication Sciences and Disorders) and doctoral degrees in Social Work, Gerontology, Occupational Therapy and Public Health. In addition to these academic units, the faculty includes two administrative units aimed at providing services and training to professionals and the lay public. These units are the Interdisciplinary Clinical Center and the Continuing Education Unit.