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Senior research scholar and Disabilities Team leader, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israeli center for applied social research.

PhD in social work at the University of Haifa.

MA in organizational psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

BA in behavioral sciences from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Primary research areas: children with disabilities, housing for people with disabilities, and their participation in society, collection and analysis of data on Israelis with disabilities and the implications for social policy.

Mrs. Gitit Broid is a Ph.D student at Ben-Gurion University. Her research deals with immigration, multiculturalism and specifically, parental experience during cultural transition, and the changes in values, believes and practices of parents from the Bukharan community.

Gitit Broid is a social worker and a psychotherapist, who works in a mental haelth clinic, and in a private clinic, a group psychotherapist and a supervisor. Previously she worked with adolescents, Holocaust survivors, 'second generation', and bereaved parents. She is an active partner in the 'DEMO' project, which deals with developing modernized curricula of immigrants and multicultural studies, in academic institutions in Israel, in collaboration with academic institutions in Europe.

She was a lecturer at the department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University and Beit Berl College.