Klaske graduated with honours as a medical doctor from VUmc and later specialized as an internist-infectiologist in Erasmus MC, with a focus on ‘Quality and safety of care’. Throughout her studies she spent time in Zambia, Suriname and Tanzania, reflecting her international interest. She is passionate about multidisciplinary and international collaboration, training and education and the complex but fundamental relationship between infectious diseases and determinants of health. The last 2 years she worked and lived in Tanzania, discovering that evidence based medicine alone does not drive improvement. It requires setting specific translation and implementation efforts, as well as interventions to reduce disparities, giving special attention to cost-effectiveness. She co-initiated local antimicrobial stewardship activities as well as a local #aware.hiv Tanzania campaign with the goal of enhanced hiv testing. Her active engagement with #aware.hiv resulted in the recent start of a PhD trajectory, to further develop and expand #aware.hiv within the European setting.