Founder and Executive Director of the National Family Safety Program since November 2005, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She has been a regional advisor to the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) since September 2011, president of the Association of Arab Professionals for the Prevention of Violence against Children in Lebanon since March 2009, and a part-time advisor to the Shura Council since 2009.

She has been an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences since January 2007, and a Consultant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and HIV at King Abdulaziz Medical City since 1994.

She served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Labor and Social Development in 2018, Regional Advisor for Violence and Injury Prevention for the Middle East at the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2009 to 2012, and Deputy Executive Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Infection Control at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) from 2002 to 2008.

She received the Prince Naif Award for Women's Excellence in Community Security in 2018, and the International Women of Courage Award in 2014 from the US Department of State, presented to her by US President Barack Obama.

She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from King Saud University in 1986, and the American Board of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases from Yale University in the United States of America in 1999.