Dr. Bassal is a senior researcher at the Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health.
She is also a senior lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Ravit Bassal started her career at the Israel Center for Disease Control in 2000; she began her career as the director of the national serum bank and the unit of enteric infections surveillance.
She completed her master's degree (M.Sc.) in epidemiology and preventive medicine at Tel Aviv University, in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Dani Cohen. Dr. Bassal completed her doctoral degree (PhD) in epidemiology and preventive medicine at Tel Aviv University in 2015, under the mentorship of both Prof. Lital Keinan-Boker and Prof. Dani Cohen, focusing on human papillomavirus infections.
In 2023, she was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine School of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Seroepidemiological surveys
Vaccine-preventable diseases
Enteric infections
Surveillance
1. Asato V, Bassal R, Meron-Sudai S, Goren S, Keinan-Boker L, MacLennan CA, Cohen D. IgG Serum Antibodies to Shigella sonnei Lipopolysaccharide Are Inversely Associated with the Incidence of Culture-Proven S. sonnei Shigellosis in Israeli Children and Adolescents. Vaccines. 2024;12(3):239. PubMed PMID: doi:10.3390/vaccines12030239.
2. Bassal R, Shalev V, Eisenberg VH, Stein-Reisner O, Schejter E. The Association Between Depression and Invasive and In-situ Cervical Tumors: A Large Population Based Cohort Study. Isr Med Assoc J. 2023;25(7):490-4. PubMed PMID: 37461175.
3. Bassal R, Davidovich-Cohen M, Yakunin E, Rokney A, Ken-Dror S, Strauss M, Wolf T, Sagi O, Amit S, Moran-Gilad J, Treygerman O, Karyo R, Keinan-Boker L, Cohen D. Trends in the Epidemiology of Non-Typhoidal Salmonellosis in Israel between 2010 and 2021. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023;20(9). Epub 2023/05/13. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20095626. PubMed PMID: 37174146.
4. Bassal R, Shohat T, Levin T, Pando R, Shinar E, Amichay D, Barak M, Ben-Dor A, Bar-Haim A, Mendelson E, Cohen D, Keinan-Boker L, Indenbaum V.The Concordance between Mumps and Rubella Sero-Positivity among the Israeli Population in 2015. Vaccines (Basel). 2022;10(7). doi: 10.3390/vaccines10070996. PubMed PMID: 35891160.
5. Bassal R, Keinan-Boker L, Cohen D, Mendelson E, Lustig Y, Indenbaum V. Estimated Infection and Vaccine Induced SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Israel among Adults, January 2020-July 2021. Vaccines (Basel). 2022;10(10).. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10101663. PubMed PMID: 36298527.
6. Bassal R, Indenbaum V, Mendelson E, Lustig Y, Keinan-Boker L. The age groups more affected by SARS-CoV-2 in children and the role of schools in the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel - January 2020-March 2021. Medical Research Archives. 2022;10(3). doi: 10.18103/mra.v10i3.2706.
7. Bassal R, Dichtiar R, Boker LK. Risk Factors for Multiple Infections with Salmonella, Shigella, and Campylobacter in Single Individuals Identified in Israel between 1999 and 2020: A Case-Case Control Study. Isr Med Assoc J. 2022;24(6):360-3. PubMed PMID: 35734833.
8. Perepliotchikov Y, Ziv-Baran T, Hindiyeh M, Manor Y, Sofer D, Moran-Gilad J, Stephens L, Mendelson E, Weil M, Bassal R, Anis E, Singer SR, Kaliner E, Cooper G, Majumdar M, Markovich M, Ram D, Grotto I, Gamzu R, Martin J, Shulman LM. Inferring Numbers of Wild Poliovirus Excretors Using Quantitative Environmental Surveillance. Vaccines. 2021;9(8):870. doi:10.3390/vaccines9080870.
9. Indenbaum V, Lustig Y, Mendelson E, Hershkovitz Y, Glatman-Freedman A, Keinan-Boker L, Bassal R. Under-diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infections among children aged 0-15 years, a nationwide seroprevalence study, Israel, January 2020 to March 2021. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles. European communicable disease bulletin. 2021;26(48).. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.Es.2021.26.48.2101040. PubMed PMID: 34857069.
10. Bassal R, Keinan-Boker L, Cohen D. A Significant Decrease in the Incidence of Shigellosis in Israel during COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(6). doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063070. PubMed PMID: 33809746.
11. Bassal R, Cohen D, Green MS, Keinan-Boker L. The Israel National Sera Bank: Methods, Representativeness, and Challenges. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(5):2280. PubMed PMID: doi:10.3390/ijerph18052280.
12. Oved K, Olmer L, Shemer-Avni Y, Wolf T, Supino-Rosin L, Prajgrod G, Shenhar Y, Payorsky I, Cohen Y, Kohn Y, Indenbaum V, Lazar R, Geylis V, Oikawa MT, Shinar E, Stoyanov E, Keinan-Boker L, Bassal R, Reicher S, Yishai R, Bar-Chaim A, Doolman R, Reiter Y, Mendelson E, Livneh Z, Freedman LS, Lustig Y. Multi-center nationwide comparison of seven serology assays reveals a SARS-CoV-2 non-responding seronegative subpopulation. EClinicalMedicine. 2020;29:100651. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100651. PubMed PMID: 33235985.
13. Glatman-Freedman A, Bromberg M, Ram A, Lutski M, Bassal R, Michailevich O, Saban M, Frankental D, Dichtiar R, Kruglikov-Moldavsky A, Rozani V, Karolinsky D, Braun T, Zuker I, Keinan-Boker L, Silverman BG. A COVID-19 call center for healthcare providers: dealing with rapidly evolving health policy guidelines. Isr J Health Policy Res. 2020;9(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s13584-020-00433-x. PubMed PMID: 33267873.
14. Bassal R, Indenbaum V, Pando R, Levin T, Shinar E, Amichay D, Barak M, Ben-Dor A, Haim AB, Mendelson E, Cohen D, Shohat T. Seropositivity of measles antibodies in the Israeli population prior to the nationwide 2018 - 2019 outbreak. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2020:1-5 doi: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1824968. PubMed PMID: 33121333.
15. Shulman LM PM, Kaufman Z, Anis E, Perry Markovich M, Bassal R, Mendelson E, Grotto I, Kopel E. Combining syndrome and laboratory surveillance with genetic analysis to monitor for emergence of vaccine escape mutants after identification of a rapid rise in rotavirus acute gastroenteritis (RAGE) among children visiting HMOs, Israel, January 2014. Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy. 2019;4:1-6.
16. Koren R, Bassal R, Shohat T, Cohen D, Mor O, Mendelson E, Lustig Y. Presence of Antibodies against Sindbis Virus in the Israeli Population: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study. Viruses. 2019;11(6). doi: 10.3390/v11060542. PubMed PMID: 31212605.
17. Cohen D, Korin H, Bassal R, Perry Markovich M, Sivan Y, Goren S, Muhsen K. Burden and risk factors of Shigella sonnei shigellosis among children aged 0-59 months in hyperendemic communities in Israel. Int J Infect Dis. 2019;82:117-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.02.031. PubMed PMID: 30831222.
18. Bassal R, Wax M, Shirazi R, Shohat T, Cohen D, David D, Abu-Mouch S, Abu-Ghanem Y, Mendelson E, Ben-Ari Z, Mor O. Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus in dromedary camels, Bedouins, Muslim Arabs and Jews in Israel, 2009-2017. Epidemiology and infection. 2019;147:e92. doi: 10.1017/s0950268819000062. PubMed PMID: 30869027.
19. Sharabi S, Bassal R, Friedman N, Drori Y, Alter H, Glatman-Freedman A, Hindiyeh M, Cohen D, Mendelson E, Shohat T, Mandelboim M. Forty five percent of the Israeli population were infected with the influenza B Victoria virus during the winter season 2015-16. Oncotarget. 2018;9(5):6623-9. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.23601. PubMed PMID: 29464098.
20. Rakovsky A, Gozlan Y, Bassal R, Wax M, Shirazi R, Bakhanashvili M, Kra-Oz Z, Radian-Sade S, Ben-Zvi H, Schreiber L, Wolf DG, Shemer-Avni Y, Chemtob D, Mendelson E, Mor O. Diagnosis of HIV-1 infection: Performance of Xpert Qual and Geenius supplemental assays in fourth generation ELISA-reactive samples. J Clin Virol. 2018;101:7-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2018.01.007. PubMed PMID: 29414189.
21. Behar A, Baker KS, Bassal R, Ezernitchi A, Valinsky L, Thomson NR, Cohen D. Microevolution and Patterns of Transmission of Shigella sonnei within Cyclic Outbreaks Shigellosis, Israel. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018;24(7):1335-9. doi: 10.3201/eid2407.171313. PubMed PMID: 29912703.
22. Bassal R, Guilburd Y, Shapira H, Azuri J, Zandbank J, Schejter E. The Clinical Significance of HPV Type in Women with Recurrent Cytological Atypia. Isr Med Assoc J. 2018;20(3):172-5. PubMed PMID: 29527856.
