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Leeat Granek

Dr. Leeat Granek is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Policy & Management at York University, Toronto, ON. She is the former head of Gerontology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ( אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב ), Department of Public Health in Beersheba, Israel. Dr. Granek earned her PhD in the History and Theory of Psychology program at York University. She is a 2019 winner of the Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award and the 2016 winner of the Sigmund Koch Award for early career contributions to psychology from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Her areas of expertise are in health psychology, feminist critical psychology, grief and mourning, and psycho-oncology. She is a former Huffpost contributer and has been involved in the Psychology's Feminist Voices project since 2005 and has conducted dozens of interviews with feminist psychologists from Canada, the United States, and Europe. For more information.