About the author Tjallie van der Kooi was born on the second of January 1968, on Texel, the Netherlands. After finishing secondary school at the Rijksscholengemeenschap in Brielle in 1985, she started with the study Tropical crop science at the Agricultural University (now Wageningen University). An exciting but also confronting practical training in Kenya made her decide to graduate in Crop science (targeting temperate climate zones) instead, with a major in grassland ecology. Despite a subsequent traineeship in vegetation mapping at the Dutch Institute for Ecological Research, the future appeared bleak for agricultural engineers in this field. As health sciences were always an interest of her as well, she started at the School for Higher Professional Education in Utrecht to become a nurse, combining work and study. After her graduation in 1998 she continued to work at the Sint Antonius hospital in Nieuwegein. In search of more depth she took on a job as a study nurse, in the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AMC), and subsequently worked in the HIV outpatient clinic. A course in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at the AMC sparked her interest in this field and she continued her epidemiological education at the EMGO institute (now EpidM). In 2003 she started working at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) , with the department of healthcare‐associated infections, where she works within the national surveillance network PREZIES (PREventie van ZIEkenhuisinfecties door Surveillance). Together with her colleagues: epidemiologists, infection control professionals and data managers, she sets up surveillance protocols, evaluates the results and reports them. During 2010‐13 she was given the opportunity to coordinate the European PROHIBIT (PRevention Of Hospital Infections By Intervention and Training) study and, in 2017‐18, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control‐commissioned study on the reproducibility of mortality review. Within the PREZIES network her focus is on central venous catheter‐related bloodstream infection and hospital‐onset bacteremia. Tjallie lives in Zeist, with her son Hong‐Fen. C 281 Dankwoord
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