Yona (Eric) Amster is a specialist in occupational and environmental medicine and an epidemiology researcher. He studied biology and medicine at the University of California Berkeley and Davis, and holds a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard School Public Health. Dr. Amster completed his clinical training in occupational and environmental medicine at Harvard University where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow and visiting scientist in the Department of Environmental Health focusing on health effects of heavy metal exposure. Dr. Amster was a Zuckerman Fellow with the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Amster was awarded a two-year Fulbright Scholar grant from the U.S. Department of State in Israel.

Since coming to Israel he has been an instructor at the Hebrew University and Technion Faculties of Medicine and is currently head of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Haifa, School of Public Health.

Dr. Amster is currently serving as a consultant with the WHO headquarters on impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on occupational health.