• Senior Fellow for Public Health Microbiology Strategy, Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England), London, United Kingdom
• Board Certification in Public Health, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
• Board Certification in Clinical Microbiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel
• MPH, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
• MD, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

• Microbial genomics
• Molecular epidemiology of bacteria
• Integration of new technology
• Precision medicine and personalised microbiology
• Development of molecular assays
• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Outbreak investigation
• Public health policy
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Quality control / quality assurance
• Laboratory medicine
• Forensic microbiology

• Development of whole-genome sequencing- based typing schemes
• Metagenomic assessment of water quality
• Genomic epidemiology of Acinetobacter baumannii
• Genomic epidemiology of Legionella pneumophila
• Genomic epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus
• National response to reintroduction of wild poliovirus

National appointments:

• National Microbiology Focal Point, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health
• Chair, National Programme for Legionellosis Control, Ministry of Health
• Co-Chair, Joint National Working Group on Surveillance, Diagnosis and Prevention of Zoonotic and Emerging Infections, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture
• Member, Inter-Office Steering Committee for Microbiological Surveillance in Wildlife Animals. Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nature and Parks Authority
• Chair, National Committee for Policy and Planning of Poliovirus Surveillance, Ministry of Health
• Member, National Advisory Committee for Outbreak Control (ZATAM), Ministry of Health
• Chair, National Working Group on Screening of Blood Products for West Nile Virus, Ministry of Health

International appointments:

• Chair, International Working Group on next-generation sequencing (NGS) of Legionella
• Executive Committee Member, European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) study group on Legionella Infections (ESGLI)
• Executive Committee Member, European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) study group for Molecular Diagnostics (ESGMD)
• Associate Editor, Eurosurveillance (European Centre for Disease Control)
• Head of ESCMID Mentorship Centre (Beer-Sheva) and two ESCMID Collaborative Centres (Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem)
• Member, Working Group on quality assurance and proficiency testing of next-generation sequencing (WG4), Global Microbial Identifier (GMI) initiative