S Maria Awaluddin obtained her Degree of Medicine in 2001 from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She completed her ten years of service as a medical officer in the Ministry of Defence. She involves in a national epidemiological survey, namely the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) since 2013 upon joining the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. She completed her master's degree in June 2021; Master of Science (Medicine) from the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA. Her MSc thesis is about the determinants of treatment success among children with TB disease and parents’ experiences and perspectives towards TB treatment success in Malaysia. She received the Graduate on Time award for her master's study. Currently, she works as a medical officer (researcher) at the National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health. She has authored 28 articles since 2014 focussing on adolescent, maternal and child health, anemia and nutrition-related areas and other NHMS topics. She has completed Altas.ti training course with Ts. Dr. Mohd Zairul bin Mohd Noor, a certified local trainer for Atlas.ti. (Package 1: Literature Review, Package 3: Thematic Review (TR), and Package 4: Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti). She plans to work on secondary data analysis and article reviews. She is familiar with research-related software such as SPSS, Microsoft Excel, R, Mendeley, Zotero and Atlas.ti.