Anne-Laure Bañuls received a PhD in Biology and Health from the University of Montpellier in 1998. She has been a researcher at IRD since 2000 and has been posted in Hanoi, Vietnam since 2014. Specialist in population biology of pathogens and in molecular epidemiology, she seeks to deduce the modes of transmission, the virulence factors and / or drug resistance from molecular data. Her research focuses on several infectious diseases such as leishmaniases and tuberculosis, the latter one being at the center of her projects in Southeast Asia. The projects she develops in southeast Asia involve several countries and her main partners are the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH), the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia, the CICML (Centre d’Infectiologie Christophe Mérieux du Laos) and Fondation Mérieux. She is co-director of the International Joint Laboratory DRISA (Drug Resistance in Southeast Asia) studying the mechanisms of bacterial drug resistance emergence and their transmission at different spatial and temporal scales.