Rachida Rafiq was born on August 21, 1990, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After finishing her secondary school at the Pieter Nieuwland College in Amsterdam, she started her study in Medicine at the VU University in Amsterdam in 2008. During her study, Rachida participated in the Honours Programme. As part of this program, she performed a clinical research internship at the Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the VU University Medical Center. She is currently working as a physician at