Luisa Toro-Alzate was born Medellín, Colombia. She graduated as Medical Doctor from the University of Antioquia (Colombia) in 2010, and she worked in the clinical field for 10 years. Then she studied for her Masters in Public Health in the Royal Tropical Institute (2019-2020) in Amsterdam, with a thesis on AMR and One Health in Colombia. Currently, she is working as a Graduate Research Intern at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development in the group of Prof. Dr Danny de Vries.