My name is Mohammed Akrim, I am research professor of epidemiology at the National School of Public Health in Rabat, Morocco. With a PhD in cell biology and microbiology, I held a position of temporary teaching and research in molecular biology and microbiology and bacterial genetics at the University of Aix-Marseille between 1992 and 1994. In 1996, I joined the Ministry of Health in Morocco and setted up a molecular biology laboratory at the National Institute of Hygiene dedicated to diagnosis, biological monitoring and epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, laboratory I directed until 2010. I joined then the National Institute for Health Administration (now Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique ENSP) for a two-year Master of Public Health associated to CDC-Atlanta supported field epidemiology-training program (FETP-Morocco) that I got in 2012. Then I integrated the ENSP educational staff as Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in 2013.

My areas of interest are communicable diseases, emerging diseases and antimicrobial drug resistance. I issues national and international publications in molecular subtyping and drug resistance genotyping of HIV and tuberculosis strains in Morocco. Strengthening the role of the laboratory in epidemiological surveillance as well as epidemic surveys and the challenges of biosafety and biosafety are at the center of my interests. I participated in 2017 in an intensive international training program on "one health" at Duke University. Concept I integrated in pedagogical and research activities through the bringing together of epidemiologists, biologists and veterinarians within the framework of the training of multidisciplinary teams and devlopment of an integrated database for the surveillance of zoonosis in my country.