Prof. Dorit Segal-Engelchin is an Associate Professor of Social Work. She is the former Chair of the Center for Women’s Health Studies and Promotion at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. One of her recent research projects in the area of women's health, funded by the Israel Science Foundation, investigates the psychosocial and mental health-related impacts on women of permanent hair loss (alopecia) due to childhood irradiation for tinea capitis. Professor Segal-Engelchin’s research also focuses on factors associated with both male and female choices about family formation and child rearing as well as on the impact of their family choices on their quality of life and health outcomes. One of the unique family configurations that she has been studying during the last years is the `hetero-gay family`, which is comprised of a gay man and a heterosexual woman who choose to conceive and raise children together outside of marriage. Professor Segal-Engelchin also studies CB-ART (cognitive behavioral and art-based) interventions for stress reduction. Her research in this area has focused on reducing stress related to community crises such as war-related stress, earthquake-related stress, and stress associated with the COVID-19- pandemic.