Ora Paltiel (Hebrew: אורה פלטיאל) is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master’s in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology.
[2] Of Romanian and Ukrainian heritage, Paltiel was born in Canada and emigrated to Israel as a child.
Her family returned and settled in Ottawa before Paltiel went to Toronto for a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.
[1] Between 2010 and 2014, she studied 1631 Israelis and Palestinians in an effort to learn risk factors for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
The study confirmed several risk factors including use of black hair dye, a first degree relative with blood cancer, and four to nine hours per week of sun exposure.