Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, and as the Chair of the Center of Excellence for Interdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences (CEISS), Hasanuddin University Graduate School
Former State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport, the ambassador for the Action Programme “New Opportunities for Top Sector Life Sciences & Health” (LSH)
Chief Science Officer of the Ministry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also professor by special appointment of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation at Radboud University in Nijmegen.