In his position of Director at ICTP, he has brought his expertise to the fields of education, community resilience, health and mental health care to increase the capacity of Israeli society to cope with the ongoing existential threat.
[1] Among his work is the oversight of academic research of the prevalence and condition of posttraumatic stress disorder among combat soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces.
[3] He published the first controlled outcome study on short-term therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in 1989.
Brom gave a congressional briefing hosted by former Senator Hillary Clinton about the effects of terrorism and trauma.
His main effort goes to bridging the gap between scientific data and the development of service provision in the community.