• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: B.A.

• Hebrew University, Jerusalem: MPH, Ph.D.

• Duke University, Durham, North Carolina: Graduate Courses

·        End of life care

·        Physical and mental health in late life

·        Well-being in late life

·        The Will-to-live in late life

·        Health and well-being of Holocaust survivors

·        Formal and informal caregiving

·        Gender differences in health and well-being in late life

·        Fear of death and dying

·        General self-esteem and professional self-esteem

·        Gender differences in health and well-being in late life

·        Effects of the use of movement monitoring on physical and cognitive function and subjective wellbeing of older people with minor neurocognitive disorders: Supported by The Israel-America Foundation

·        Depression and will to live in late life

·        Patterns of coping with losses and successful aging: A longitudinal study of a national sample of elderly Israelis: Supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation – BSF, the Ministry for Senior Citizens, and the Sonia and Abraham Rochlin Foundation

·        The effects of a guided life review on psychological wellbeing of terminally-ill young and old cancer patients: Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Health, and Aid to the Oncological Patient Foundation

·        Active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Israel: Attitudes of older persons. Supported by the Israel-America Foundation, and The Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research

·        Determinants of the will-to-live of Israeli older adults: Supported by the MINERVA Foundation

·        Effects of early and late retirement on cognitive functions: Supported by the Berlin Demography Forum

·        Health risks of primary caregivers to severely ill patients: Awareness and preventive treatment among primary care physicians and primary caregivers: Supported by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research

·        Application of the will-to-live scale to daily practice with older adults: Supported by Sol Leshin Program for Collaboration between UCLA and BGU

·        Influence of health beliefs and self-efficacy on outcomes of inflammatory bowel diseases - Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis - in a patient population in southern Israel: Supported by The Israel-America Foundation

·        Positive effects of informal caregiving on family primary caregivers, An international comparative study Supported by ILC- Global Alliance

Recent Representative Publications

Carmel, S., Tovel, H., Raveis, H.R., & O’Rourke, N. (2018). Is a decline in will-to-live a consequence or predictor of depression in late life? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), doi: 10.1111/jgs.15394

O’Rourke, N., Carmel, S., & Bachner, Y.G. (2018). Does early life trauma affect how depression is experienced by Holocaust survivors in late life? Aging & Mental Health, 22, 662-668. (IF – 2.66 JR in Gerontology 8/32; Q1)

Elhai, N., Carmel, S., O'Rourke, N., & Bachner, Y.G. (2018). Translation and validation of the Hebrew version of the SHALOM Spiritual Questionnaire.  Aging & Mental Health, 22(1), 46-52. doi:10.1080/13607863.2016.1222350.

Bachner, Y.G., Carmel, S., & O’Rourke, N. (2018). The paradox of well-being and Holocaust survivors. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24, 45-52. doi: 10.1177/1078390317705450.

Alon, S., Sela, Y., & Carmel, S. (2018). Effects of perceptions of prognosis on existential well-being and ego-integrity among advanced cancer patients. Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care, June 30, S60-S67. doi:org/10.17140/PMHCOJ-SE-1-113.

Carmel, S. (2017). The Will-to-Live Scale: Development, validation and significance for elderly people. Aging & Mental Health, 21(3), 289-296. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1081149.

Carmel, S., Raveis, H.V., O'Rourke, N., & Tovel., H. (2017). Health, coping and subjective well-being: Results of a longitudinal study of elderly Israelis. Aging & Mental Health, 21(6), 616-623. doi:10.1080/13607863.2016.1141285

Carmel, S., King, D.B., O’Rourke, N., & Bachner, Y.G. (2017).  Subjective well-being: Gender differences in Holocaust survivors-specific and cross-national effects. Aging & Mental Health, 21(6), 668-675. doi:10.1080/13607863.2016.1148660

Tovel, H., Carmel, S., & Raveis, V. H. (2017). Relationships among self-perception of aging, physical functioning, and self-efficacy in late life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 74(2), 212-221.

Tovel, H., & Carmel, S. (2016). Function Self-Efficacy Scale—FSES: Development, Evaluation, and Contribution to Well-Being. Research on Aging, 38(6), 643-664. doi:10.1177/0164027515596583

Recent Presentations:

 Carmel, S., Tovel, H., Raveis, V.H., & O' Rourke, N. "Are depression and will to live two sides of the same coin?" 12^th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Greece, April, 2019.

Carmel, S., O' Rourke, N., Elhai, N., & Shrira, A. "Impact of the Holocaust on will-to-live, physical health and depression among elderly Israelis." 3rd International Conference on Loss, Bereavement & Human Resilience in Israel and The world: Facts, Insights & Implications, Eilat, Israel, January, 2019 (Poster presentation).

O'Rourke, N., Bachner, Y.G., & Carmel, S. "The paradox of well-being and Holocaust survivors." 3rd International Conference on Loss, Bereavement & Human Resilience in Israel and The world: Facts, insights & Implications, Eilat, Israel, January, 2019 (Poster presentation).

Adar, R., Carmel, S., & Bachner, Y. G. "Active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Israel: Attitudes of older persons and social workers, and changes in related factors." The 23th Biennial Conference of the Israel Gerontological Society. Tel-Aviv, Israel, February, 2018. (Oral presentation).

Elhai, N., Bachner, Y.G., & Carmel, S. "Relationships among spirituality, well-being and health." The 23th Biennial Conference of the Israel Gerontological Society. Tel-Aviv, Israel, February, 2018. (Oral presentation).

Alon, S., & Carmel, S. "Life-review treatment at the end of life." The 23th Biennial Conference of the Israel Gerontological Society. Tel-Aviv, Israel, February, 2018. (Oral presentation).

Carmel, S., Tovel, H., Raveis, V., O'Rourke, N. "Is decline in will-to-live a predictor or consequence of depression in late life?" Pioneer Century Science (PCS) 3rd Annual Health Care Conference – Mental Health Forum, Prague, Czech Republic, April, 2018 (Oral presentation).

Alon, S., & Carmel, S., "Developmental and psychological value of life review therapy in mid-Aged and older terminally ill people." GSA Annual Conference, Boston, USA, November, 2018 (Oral presentation).

• A collaborative Canadian-Israeli study, conducted by Prof. Norm O’Rourke, Prof. Yaakov Bachner and Prof. Sara Carmel on post-traumatic symptoms of Holocaust survivors living in Canada and Israel
• A collaborative longitudinal Israeli-American study conducted by Prof. Sara Carmel and Prof. Victoria Raveis – New York University, NY, US
• A collaborative UCLA-BGU study, conducted by Prof. JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez and Prof. Sara Carmel 
• A collaborative international longitudinal study on Positive Effects of Informal Caregiving, headed by ILC-Singapore and ILC-Canada, conducted by ILC centers of seven countries; partly supported by Australian and Canadian Funds.