Dr Thouraya Annabi Attia

Dr Thouraya Annabi Attia is a physician who has always worked on preventive medicine. She has occupied many positions at regional and national level in the Tunisian National Public Health system since 1986, including as occupational health inspector, head of the regional then national service of public hygiene, and director of the food safety department at The National Agency of Sanitary and Environmental Control of Products (ANCSEP) from 2006 to 2015. She then joined the National Observatory for new and emerging diseases (ONMNE), retiring from public administration in July 2017.

Dr Annabi Attia then worked on a voluntary basis (hospital consultations, university teaching and with the nongovernmental organizations Association Maghrebine de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments et Association Tunisienne de Défense du Droit à la Santé) and as an independent expert. She has also worked at international level with UN agencies and others for short missions.

During her career, Dr Annabi Attia participated and conducted epidemiological studies on public health and sanitation, food poisoning and food safety, the environmental impact on health, vector control, water hygiene, hospital infections and mental health. She worked on health education and risk communication, sanitary regulation, information systems, population surveillance and product monitoring, risk assessment and risk management, strategic studies and national programmes for the prevention of water and foodborne diseases and in hospital infection control programmes. She authored articles and gave lectures in all these subjects (about 200 publications and lectures). She headed the accreditation committee on food labs (TUNAC, national accreditation body) (2007–2024); was Associate researcher at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis (2010–2014) and at Razi Hospital - Service PINEL (since 2013).

Dr Annabi Attia served on the IHR Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 response.

Dr Annabi Attia holds a Medical Doctor degree from Tunis University. She is a graduate in occupational health and psychotherapy.