Sperm Count Decline: The Silent Pandemic?

Prof. Hagai Levine is a public health physician and environmental epidemiologist, Professor at the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Founder and first director of the Environmental Health Track and one of the founders of the Advance School of Environmental Studies and the research Center in Agriculture and Environmental Health.

Prof. Levine has Published ~100 peer-reviewed scientific articles in the leading literature. His work examines the environmental, biological, and chemical threats to public health and the response needed, with focus on male reproduction and impact of maternal exposures on the developing fetus. His main fields of research are Air pollution impact on health, Chemical pollutants (pesticides, endocrine disrupting chemicals, etc.), Human Bio-monitoring as well as Control of communicable diseases and pandemic preparedness.

In 2017 Dr. Levine together with Dr. Swan and other colleagues published “Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis” which received extensive, worldwide media coverage.