Biography
Maryline Bonnet, a trained pulmonary physician, took her first steps in the humanitarian field during a mission in Rwanda and Burundi in 1994 with MSF when she was still a young intern. Then, throughout her missions, particularly in Georgia, Armenia and Russia, her expertise and interests were focused on managing tuberculosis. Faced with the lack of treatment and diagnostic tools for this infectious disease, she turned to research and joined Epicentre in 2003. As part of her PhD in public health at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, she conducted several studies on tuberculosis diagnosis in Kenya, contributing to new WHO recommendations. In 2013, she joined the IRD TransVIHMI unit as a research director, assigned to the Epicentre Research Center in Mbarara, Uganda, between 2014 and 2019. During these 5 years, she will focus on studies on improving the diagnosis and screening of tuberculosis in children, simplifying the treatment of susceptible forms and the management of severe forms, especially in patients at an advanced stage of immunosuppression related to HIV infection or suffering from meningeal tuberculosis. Presently Director of Research at the IRD, she continues her work on tuberculosis in Uganda and Cameroon from the IRD in Montpellier.