Professor Paul Kelly is Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Paul is a public health physician, epidemiologist and health service executive. He was Chief Health Officer for the Australian Capital Territory and Deputy Director General of Population Health in the ACT Government Health Directorate. He is currently a member of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee and the National Health and Medical Research Council, and a founding partner of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Australian Burden of Disease Study and of two World Health Organization Advisory Groups - International Health Regulations Roster of Experts and Nutritional Guidelines Advisory Group. He is currently an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Public Health Policy Journal and the Editor of the ACT Population Health Bulletin.