Professor Josephine Pravinkumar is the Director of Public Health & Health Policy, NHS Lanarkshire.

Josephine leads the Health Board’s Public Health Directorate, which assesses the health status and healthcare needs of the community and improves them through health protection, health improvement and health service development.

After specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, Josephine joined NHS Lanarkshire as a trainee in public health in 1999, before moving to NHS Ayrshire & Arran as a consultant.

She returned to Lanarkshire in 2009 and was motivated to step into the public health senior role with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.