Anna Popova is a university graduate specialising in medical and preventive care. M. D. Professor in the discipline "Hygiene".
She worked as an epidemiologist, head of the Epidemiology Department at the Budennovskaya Health Station; epidemiologist and chief physician of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Centre in Serpukhov, Serpukhov Region, and Pushchino; deputy director of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) of the Moscow Oblast; head of the Department of Personnel, Postgraduate Education, and Public Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor (Federal service for supervision of consumer rights protection and human welfare), deputy director of Rospotrebnadzor.