Professor Muhamed-Kheir Taha is the Head of the Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. He is also Head of the French National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae and Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Meningitis. Professor Taha received his MD degree from the University of Damascus in 1983, his PhD from the University of Diderot, Paris in 1990 and his habilitation from the University of Descartes, Paris in 1997. Professor Taha is the current President of the European Meningococcal and Haemophilus Disease Society (EMGM). He served as a voting member of French Advisory Committee on Immunization (the CTV) from 2007 to 2017. His research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae as well as on the molecular epidemiology of meningococcal and H. influenzae infections.