Dr. Najwa Khuri-Bulos

Head

Division of Infectious Disease

Jordan University Hospital

Dr. Khuri-Bulos is a professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Disease and the Head of the Division of Infectious Disease at the Jordan University Hospital. In 2010, she assumed the role of deanship of research at the Jordan University in addition to being an adjunct professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and the chairman of the Jordan Medical Board Infectious Disease Committee.

Dr. Khuri-Bulos served as Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Infection Control Unit at the Jordan University Hospital. She is American Board certified in Pediatrics and Infectious Disease and has received the Certification Board of Infection Control (CBIC).

Dr. Khuri-Bulos serves on many committees within the Jordan Ministry of Health including the committee on outbreak control, HIV/AIDS and Avian and Swine flu. She also chairs the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group and the National Certification Committee for Polio eradication. She has served on the standing committee of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), where she served as co-chairman of the immunization program area, and is the vice-chairman of the standing committee of the Brighton Collaboration and on the advisory board of NESI. She is a board member of
the project on maintaining public trust in immunization with Dr. Heidi Larson at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Her research interests include vaccine adverse events, respiratory infections, health care related infections, typhoid fever, brucellosis and catheter related blood stream infections. She also serves on Jordan’s science board of the Abdul Hameed Shuman Prize committee.