Kalthoum Sana was born in Tunisia in 1980. She graduated from the National School of Veterinary Medicine of Sidi Thabet in 2005 with a Diploma in Veterinary Medicine and recently earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences. In 2007, she joined the National Center of Animal Health in Tunisia. By 2016, she was appointed head of the Sub-Direction of Surveillance and Evaluation. Her current research focuses on epidemiology, study design, dog population studies, rabies, GIS, and risk mapping. In May 2024, she was named Director of the Collaborating Center for Field Epidemiology at WOAH.