Dr. Dorit Nitzan

• Coordinator, Health Emergencies & Programme Area Manager, Emergency Operations, WHO Europe
• Visiting Scholar, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Nitzan was recently (August 2016) appointed as Coordinator of the  Health Emergencies and Programme Area Emergency Operations at World Health Organization (WHO) Europe. Previously, from 2012 to 2016 she served as WHO Representative and Head of Country Office in Ukraine. From 2005 to 2012, she was the WHO Head of Country Office in Serbia and the Manager of Public Health Services for South-East Europe.

Before joining WHO, Dr Nitzan was the Director of the Food and Nutrition Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Health. She was active in global health work through the Israeli Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs, World Food Program and was a consultant to Ethiopia, China, Moldova and the Russian Federation. 

• Global health
• Outbreaks and crises
• Social determinants of health
• Right to health
• Health surveillance
• Nutrition and food security

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