Abigail Klein Leichman| Courtesy Israel21C

Since October, Dr. Dorit Nitzan has been home in Israel, directing the master’s degree program in emergency medicine preparedness and response at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

This is unusual, because as an employee of the World Health Organization she lived abroad most of the past 17 and a half years.

“Health can become a bridge for peace,” says Nitzan, a dietician, pediatrician and public health expert.

She directed the Food and Nutrition Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Health from June 1996 until September 2005 and did global health work through the ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs and the World Food Program.

One of her first assignments was working in Ethiopian feeding camps in the wake of a famine.

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Photo Credit: Dani Machlis/BGU

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