Professor Henda Triki

After medical studies in the Faculty of Medicine of Sfax (that ended with a presidential award in 1984) and obtention of the National Diploma of Speciality in Microbiology in 1990, Henda Triki joined the Pasteur institute of Tunis in 1991 and was assigned at the head of the Laboratory of Clinical Virology. This laboratory basically conducts diagnostic activities in human virology and also acts as a WHO Regional Reference Laboratory in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) for poliomyelitis, since 1992, and for Measles since 2002. Henda Triki became Assistant Professor in Virology in 1993, Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in Virology in 2006. She worked as Director of Public Health & Medical Affairs in the Pasteur Institute of Tunis from 2002 to 2006 and was member of several national and international committees on vaccine preventable diseases. Beside her diagnostic and Public health activities, Henda Triki is also involved in Research with a special interest in viral hepatitis and enteric viruses. She was Director of a Research Unit on Hepatitis and epidemic viral diseases in the  Pasteur Institute of Tunis from 2002-2004 which was enlarged to a Research Laboratory on Genetic Diversity of Hepatic and Enteric viruses from 2005 to 2016. Up to 2022, she was the authors of 114 research articles published in indexed international revues.