Dr. Khetam Hussein, Deputy Director of the Galilee Medical Center. Dr. Hussein completed her medical studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and did her specialization in internal medicine and infectious diseases and later she established and managed the hospital’s Infection Control Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC). In 2020, Dr. Hussein completed a sub-specialization in infection control and hospital epidemiology from the European Committee on Infection Control training program.  During COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Hussein headed RHCC’s COVID-19 departments.

  Since 2019, she has served as a consultant for Israel’s Ministry of Health, Division of Governmental Medical Centers, on infection prevention. In 2022, she completed her MBA studies at the Coller School of Management – Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University and her internship in medical administration at RHCC. Dr. Hussein serves as a senior lecturer at the Bar-Ilan Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Hussein engages in research in the field of resistant bacteria, hospital-acquired infections and infection prevention, and over the years, she has published dozens of articles in leading global medical journals. Dr. Hussein received the honor to light one of 12 torches at Israel’s official 75th Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem in April 2023, in light of her role as a pioneer in the medical field and in Israeli society. In 2023, Israel’s Minister of Health appointed her as a member of the Health Ministry’s Medicines Basket Committee.