Dr Amina Hançali

Amina Hançali PhD in Microbiology, Head of the National Reference laboratory on STI at the National Institute of Hygiene, Ministry of Health of Morocco. Her main research focuses on Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing and other bacterial STIs. She has been involved in several research studies with the National AIDS Progam. She is member of the STI Guideline Development Group - WHO Geneva and member of the national committee for STIs management and Co founder of the national working group on AMR surveillance.

Thanks to her experience in laboratory technologies, she was assigned as a member of the National Commission for the Registration of In Vitro Diagnostic Laboratory Reagents at the Moroccan Ministry of Health since 2007 and Sworn Member of this Commission at the Rabat Court of First Instance since 2015.

She is member of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted infections “IUSTI” world Executive Committee and Chair of the IUSTI Africa.

She is Vice president of “Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines” non-profit women's association, which campaign for the promotion of women's rights and Vice president of the Moroccan Association against Myopathies.