Yael Assor is a socio-cultural and medical anthropologist who studies how culturally-dependent moral views shape medical policy tools. Assor's doctoral research (UCLA, 2020) explored how the ideal of "objectivity" as ethically appropriate conduct shapes the decisions made at the Israeli Public Committee for the Enhancement of the Medical Services Basket (known in Israel as Va'adat Sal Hatrufot). Her current research examines the ethical assumptions underlying the notion of "medical effectiveness" in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), a central policy-making tool for determining healthcare funding allocation worldwide. While CEA aims to provide a standardized, value-free measurement between different health technologies, its calculation requires making various assumptions about what is "good health" and who should determine it. Alongside her academic endeavors, Assor volunteers as the founding director of the Inter-Organizational Forum for Reducing Health Gaps in East Jerusalem, an initiative attending to the stark gaps in community healthcare services between the two parts of Jerusalem.