Dr. Gal Hagit Carasso Romano

Researcher and lecturer for Sustainability, local government, and municipal economic sustainable development.
Currently serves as the Head of Sustainability program and Academic director of the cadet program for local government administration at Tel Hai Academic College.
I served as a scientific advisor to Mr. Mordechai Cohen, former CEO of the Ministry of the Interior. As part of this role, I led an interdisciplinary team including various government ministries, Academics, and private bodies to develop tools for municipal economic and sustainable development. Products of this team were presented at the UN Habitat Conference. I have also co-led an OECD workshop on economic development in rural authorities. In collaboration with the director of the Economic Development Division of the Ministry of the Interior, we wrote a study analyzing the economic disparities between local authorities in Israel.
I hold a Postdoctoral fellowship from Columbia University in New York, and a graduate of MIMSHAK Program for Training Scientists as Advisors to Senior Government Officials.

Sustainability, Environment, Health, Society, Local Government

Urban and Municipal sustainable development, Health and environment

• Introduction to Sustainability
• Health and Environment
• Municipal Economy
• Urban sustainable Development

1. Mostovoy, N., Carasso Romano, GH., Rabinowitz, D., Soroker, S., & Carmi, N. (2021). The municipal council, my neighbors and me: Social environmental influences in the city. Journal of Environmental Management, 288, 112393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112393
   [Cited by 7], [IF8.91]
2. Lehavi S., & Romano GH. (2016). The economy of local government in Israel—Analysis of the gaps between local authorities in Israel. Ministry of Interior. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/generalpage/economy-local-government/he/file_economy-local-government.pdf [Hebrew].
3. Harari, Y., Romano GH., Ungar, L., & Kupiec, M. (2013). Nature vs nurture: Interplay between the genetic control of telomere length and environmental factors. Cell Cycle, 12(22), 3465–3470. https://doi.org/10.4161/cc.26625
   [Cited by 22]. [IF 5.173]
4. Kupiec M, Harari Y, Romano GH., Ruppin E, Sharan R. (2013) Environmental Stress Disrupt Telomere Length Homeostasis.  YEAST
   [Cited by 0]. [IF 3.3]
5. Romano, GH., Harari, Y., Yehuda, T., Podhorzer, A., Rubinstein, L., Shamir, R., Gottlieb, A., Silberberg, Y., Pe’er, D., Ruppin, E., Sharan, R., & Kupiec, M. (2013). Environmental Stresses Disrupt Telomere Length Homeostasis. PLoS Genetics, 9(9), e1003721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003721
   [Cited by 117]. [IF 5.1]
6. Yona AH, Manor YS, Romano GH, Herbst RH, Kupiec M, Dahan O, Pilpel Y. (2012). “Chromosomal duplication is a transient evolutionary solution to stress” PNAS, 21010–21015, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211150109.
   [Cited by 380]. [IF 11.1]
7. Romano GH., Gurvich Y., Lavi O., Ulitsky I., Shamir R., & Kupiec M. (2010). Different sets of QTLs influence fitness variation in yeast. Molecular Systems Biology, 6(1), 346. https://doi.org/10.1038/msb.2010.1
   [Cited by 34]. [IF 9.9]
8. Mitchell A., Romano GH., Groisman B., Yona A., Dekel E., Kupiec M., Dahan O., & Pilpel Y. (2009). Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature, 460(7252), 220–224. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08112
   [Cited by 627]. [IF 64.8].