Appendix A 329 A6. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Elke was born in Voorschoten, the Netherlands, on 3 March 1991 to Marianne and Dick Wynberg and has two older brothers, Maarten and Wouter. In 1994, the family moved to Western Australia where Elke’s interest in marine life began; influences of this can be seen on the cover of this PhD booklet. Following subsequent moves back to the Netherlands and to Scotland and Singapore, Elke moved to London in 2009 to study Medicine at Imperial College London. During her medical studies, Elke found herself drawn to prevention rather than only treatment of illness, as well as to infectious disease medicine due to its close links with international health. She therefore completed a BSc in Global Health and pursued several opportunities to gain experience in academia, mainly within the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research. After completing her medical training in 2015, Elke followed the United Kingdom’s 2-year Foundation Training Programme in Bristol and London. Despite the long and demanding shifts, Elke enjoyed the teamwork and contact with patients and their families immensely. She consequently enrolled in the MSc in Global Health Science & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford on a fully-funded Medical Research Council studentship. This experience gave her the knowledge and skills to continue to perform research throughout her career. Elke subsequently decided to go back to clinical practice in infectious disease medicine at the Royal Free Hospital between 2018-2019. On her first day of the job, a patient with mpox was admitted to the high-level isolation unit and the team had to consult literature to inform their decision-making. From this moment on, Elke knew that she wanted to work on the interface between academia and the front-line of infectious disease control. Elke therefore moved to Amsterdam in January 2020 to start her specialty training in infectious disease control at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam. She began her training in March 2020, four days after the first COVID-19 case had been notified in the Netherlands. Six weeks later, she was also taken on as a physician-scientist of the RECoVERED Cohort Study. Since then, Elke has been combining her public health training with her PhD research, aiming to develop skills and knowledge within each discipline to advance her understanding of both fields. Her public health training included placements at the Public Health Service of Curaçao, at the Tropical Medicine Clinic at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (AUMC), National Institute of Infectious Disease Control (LCI), and the Public Health Services of Amsterdam and Flevoland. Following completing her training as a physician of communicable disease control in April 2023, Elke moved to Bangkok, Thailand. She currently works remotely for the Pandemic
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