She has a doctoral degree in medical sciences-epidemiology from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven-Belgium. She joined Al Quds University-Faculty of Public health in year 1998. For the past 10 years, she was the research coordinator of several international projects. Also, she worked as a consultant for several international organizations. In addition, she was the board's head of the Health Forum, an NGO, for 9 years. She has experience in research on diabetes, cancer, allergy, asthma, lead and others. Her research interest is in NCDs and its related co-morbidities in particular those related to lifestyle and environmental exposures as risk factors. She is a member of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) at Al Quds University.