Director of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, effective 1 February 2024, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She is the Assistant Director-General for Antibiotic Resistance at the same organization.

She is a pediatric infectious disease specialist and a member of the Saudi Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Society of Infection Control and Epidemiology Professionals, the European Scientific Committee for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), and the International Congress on Infection Control, in addition to being a member of several committees within the World Health Organization.

She served as Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center ( KAIMRC) from 2012 to 2019, which she co-founded. She was also Head of the Research Promotion and Education Department at the same center from 2007 to 2010. She was also Executive Director of the Infection Control Department at the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, and Director of the Gulf Center for Infection Control.

She served as an editorial consultant, editor-in-chief, and associate editor for the Journal of Infection and Public Health at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences from 2008 to 2019, and as an associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the College of Medicine at the same university.

She has received numerous awards, including the Researcher Award in 2009 and the Advanced Researcher Award in 2013 from the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center and King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences . She has also published more than 90 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented more than 100 research abstracts at local and international conferences.

She obtained the American Board of Pediatrics in 1996 from Massachusetts General Hospital, the American Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1999 from the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, and the American Board of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1999 from Case Western Reserve University in the United States of America.

She holds a Master’s degree in Medical Education from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in 2009, and a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from King Abdulaziz University in 1991.