I completed my medical training at the University of Edinburgh (2014-2020). In 2015 I was awarded a Medical Research Scotland Vacation Scholarship, which I successfully completed at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, and thereafter I continued to be active in academia: my ORCID link is "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9188-1859". In 2016 I intercalated at King's College London for a year, where I obtained a (1st class) honours degree in Imaging Sciences (which was physics-based) and the prize for best intercalation project in the degree. In 2020 I was offered an Academic Foundation Post (AFP) at the Northern deanery following a nationally competitive interview process. I completed my 2 years of foundation training at South Tees NHS Trust (2020-2022) where I had the only post for academic foundation doctor in my cohort, and continued to balance clinical and research duties during the Covid-19 pandemic. On completing this, I felt I liked medicine as a subject matter and long-term career aspiration however I was still unsure which area of work I wanted to commit to. I took a 1 year career-break which I invested towards widening my horizons and self-development and care. During this time, I talked to specialists in different medical fields, did a further specialty taster week, worked on my research and began an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at UCL. The latter aligned with interests of mine like technology and affecting positive healthcare change at a mass scale, however I decided to drop out after 2 weeks on-campus, after re-evaluating the career landscape (in the UK), taking my background and career ideas into account. During this time I gradually developed a passion for public health medicine. I had not come across this specialty properly during my foundation years, and after networking with many specialists and looking into it in detail, I felt it was an area of work that highly interests me and which I aspired to specialise in. I was fortunate to be offered a national training number for an NHS post as a public health medicine specialist registrar following a highly competitive national application process, and moreover at my first-ranked region of Yorkshire and the Humber (deanery competition ratio 11:1). For ST1, I was assigned my first placement in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (which has just won 2 national awards in 2023 as best local government authority in the UK), where I am currently working. As part of the specialty training I will also be doing an MPH at the University of Sheffield this academic year, fully sponsored by NHS England.