Fatima Yatim defended her PhD thesis at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines where she spent two years as an ATER. After a postdoc at the Gustave Roussy Institute, she was appointed in 2017 as Maître de Conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique. Fatima Yatim joined the Cnam in September 2021.