Adriëtte Oostvogels

About the author Adriëtte Oostvogels was born on October 16, 1986 on the country side of Steenbergen (NB). She graduated from secondary school in 2005. In the summer of 2005 she moved from the South-West of the Netherlands to the North-East and started her studies in Biology at the University of Groningen. During her studies she was an active member of her student horse riding association and worked as a student assistant. In 2008, she paused her studies for a year to become chairwoman of the student association of Biology and Life Science & Technology. In 2009 she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology, with a specialization in Medical Biology, after which she started her master Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences. She completed her first internship at the Department of Pharmacoepidemiolgy & Pharmacoeconomics of the University of Groningen, while being the student member of the Board of the School of Life Sciences. During the second year of her master she did not only follow the track Science, Business and Policy for which she completed her internship at the Market Access department of GlaxoSmithKline, but also was a student member of the University Council of the University of Groningen. Adriëtte graduated in 2011 and started working as a junior researcher at the Julius Center of the UMC Utrecht on the ECO-BCODE project for which she performed a systematic review on full economic evaluations of infectious disease interventions using disability-adjusted life years (DALY) as the outcome measure. After finishing this project she started working as a PhD-student within the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development (ABCD) study at the department of Public Health of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. As part of her PhD-project she collected new data in the pregnancy files of all participating ABCD-women with informed consent. This data was used to write the thesis you are now holding. In 2015, she put her PhD-project on the back burner to help coordinate the data collection of Phase 4 of the ABCD-study. In 2017, during the wrap up of this thesis, she replaced the data manager/project coordinator of the ABCD-study who went on maternity leave. Adriëtte now works as an epidemiologist at the Department of Prevention, Advice and Crisis at the Municipal Health Service (GGD) Kennemerland in Haarlem. She currently lives in Utrecht together with Rutger and their son Sven. 267 About the author