Mrs. Sarra Kanoun Jarraya, Minister for the Affairs of Women Family, Childhood and the Elderly obtained a doctorate of medical science from the University of Tunis, she then specialized in paediatric preventive. She also obtained a statistical studies certificate applied to medicine from René Descartes University- Paris, France.

Mrs. Jarraya worked as a doctor of public health and as doctor responsible for the national program for the health of the mother and the child, then as a Director General of the Institute for the advancement of disabilities and then as Director General of the National Institute for Child welfare.

In 2004 she was appointed Secretary of State in charge of children and the elderly within the Ministry for the Affairs of Women, the Family, Childhood and the Elderly.

Mrs. Jarraya contributed to the preparation and publication of several studies as well as medical and social research. Among her most important writings a thesis on exotic objects in the respiratory system; and on the Tunisian adolescent, his health and his environment, and on the child in Tunisia, awarded by the President of the Tunisian Republic.

Mrs. Jarraya participated in the completion of several studies, «consideration of adolescents engaged in the study of health issues in Tunis» and the national study on maternal mortality in Tunisia as well as her participation in many international conferences and demonstrations on childhood, health, women and the family.