Lika Apriani completed her medical study in the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung (2005), and joined the Tuberculosis (TB) working group under the Health Research Unit in her faculty as a field doctor (2006-2009). In 2010, she graduated with a Master of Health Science specialising in Epidemiology from the Netherlands Institute of Health Science (NIHES), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She then became a staff member of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2014 as a lecturer. As a researcher, she has contributed to several research projects in TB, working with international researchers. Her research experience includes immunogenetic studies, pharmacokinetic studies, clinical trials, diagnostic studies, latent TB infection studies, and a field study of household contact tracing of TB patients. She has published 9 articles about her work in TB projects, and has presented her work in international and national scientific meetings. Currently she is doing her PhD project on latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers.