Dr. Sana Masmoudi is a pharmacist. Currently, she serves as the Quality Control Manager in vaccine and sera production at the Pasteur Institute of Tunisia. Before this role, Dr. Masmoudi spent over a decade in private pharmaceutical industries as a laboratory manager, R&D manager, and quality system manager.
With 22 years of experience, she has developed expertise in biosafety, biosecurity, quality management, healthcare quality and safety assessments, and drug, vaccine, and sera production. Dr. Masmoudi actively contributes to various institutional committees, including the scientific council, quality committee, biosafety and biosecurity committee, governance committee, and waste management committee.
Dr. Masmoudi is IFBA certified in biorisk management, biosecurity, and risk assessment, and is a national WHO biorisk management trainer. She has participated in advanced biosafety training programs, including the MENA ABOT course and CDC Africa course, where she became certified as a trainer and implementer of regulatory frameworks for handling high-risk pathogens.
She is also a trainer for good laboratory and clinical practices within the Tunisian Regional Training Center TDR/WHO, and a member of the Tunisian Association on Biosafety and Environment Education (ATB2E). Since 2016, Dr. Masmoudi has been assessing the quality and safety of care in public and private healthcare facilities.
Dr. Masmoudi is involved in numerous projects in the biosafety and biosecurity fields, including the Tunisian-German partnership project on biosafety and food safety and the Tunisian-American project on enhancing biosecurity with Gryphon Scientific. She actively participates in national and international collaborations, sharing her expertise and contributing to the development of guidelines.