The National Center for Disease Prevention and Control signed a cooperation agreement on Sunday with the Public Health Agency of Sweden. 

Dr. Abdullah Al-Gwizani, executive director-general of the center, signed the agreement with his Swedish counterpart, Dr. Johan Carlsson.

The agreement will strengthen ties and enhance cooperation between the two countries in public health within the framework of cooperation prepared in 2019.

Al-Gwizani said: “These agreements reinforce the center’s role in creating new health practices and developing the performance of the public health sector.”

Al-Gwizani has been the executive director-general of the center at the Ministry of Health since June 2018. 

He previously held senior positions in several public health institutions. He worked as the director of Infection Prevention and Control at King Abdullah Specialist Children Hospital between 2017 and 2018. 

He was also a consultant of Adult Infectious Diseases at King Abdul Aziz Medical City (KAMC) and director of the Infection Prevention and Control Department at Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Hospital in Riyadh. 

Al-Gwizani graduated from King Saud University with a bachelor’s degree in medicine in 2007. 

He completed a hospital epidemiology fellowship program in 2016 at the University of Iowa Health Care in the US. 

He also was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Infection Prevention and Control at KAMC for three years, between 2013 and 2015.