After completing his medical studies in 2005 at the University of Leuven (BE), Dr. Koen Vanden Driessche moved to Kinshasa (DRC) where he worked for the University of North Carolina (USA) in a CDC-funded program that aimed at scaling up integrated HIV care for TB patients. In 2007 Koen obtained his tropical medicine degree from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (BE). He combined his paediatric training (2007-2011) at Amalia Children’s Hospital in Nijmegen (NL), with teaching Pediatrics at the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine. His Pediatric Infectious Diseases subspecialty training compromised a 3-year fellowship (2011-2014) at B.C. Children’s Hospital, Vancouver (CA) and 6-months fellowship (2018) at Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam (NL). Since 2019 he works as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases specialist in the Antwerp University Hospital (BE). His research activities focus on prevention of infectious diseases that can spread through the airborne route, including SARS-CoV-2. In Vancouver they were able to validate the guidelines that ask all CF patients to wear a surgical mask when entering healthcare settings, to prevent the spread of CF pathogens through the air. At Stellenbosch University in Cape Town (SA) they are investigating airborne transmission of TB.