Professor Lakhanpaul graduated from Medicine in 1992. She trained in paediatrics, gained her doctorate in Paediatrics and Child Health in 2003, and proceeded to Senior Lecturer and Consultant Paediatrician at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, respectively. In 2012 Professor Lakhanpaul joined the UCL GOS Institute of Child Heath as Professor of Integrated Community Child Health. In 2016 she was appointed Head of Population, Policy and Practice. She takes a life-course approach to her work, and uses collaborative, participatory research methods to work with communities, particularly the most vulnerable in society, with the aim of helping their voices to be heard to improve their health and wellbeing. She works at the intersections of health, education and the environment, supported by citizen science and the creative arts, to ensure that the communities she works with are involved in co-developing holistic integrated solutions that are aimed at supporting them. Her research aims to translate evidence into clinical practice and health policy; bringing together primary, community and hospital care, social care, education and primary and secondary research. Professor Lakhanpaul currently holds posts as: Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Whittington Health NHS Trust Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India), UCL Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement) Co-Director of the Childhood Infections and Pollution (CHIP) Consortium Adjunct Professor of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) Member by Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health Faculty Member of the Reach Alliance National Patient and Public Engagement Lead at the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre.