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Zoe Aslanpour is a consultant in public health working part time as public health commissioner for Bedfordshire NHS. She is also the head of clinical practice and public health at the School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire. Previous to her current role, Zoe worked as an assistant director for public health in Barnet PCT for five years responsible for practice based commissioning, mental health, immunisation, diabetes, prescribing and pharmacy. For five years Zoe held a dual position as the pharmaceutical adviser as well as public health specialist, working closely with primary, secondary and tertiary care around evidence based practice and effective prescribing in Barnet. During this time she was a member of Drug and Therapeutic committees of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trusts. Prior to joining Barnet in 2000, Zoe worked in East London and City Health Authority and then City and Hackney PCG as a public health pharmaceutical adviser. She established the first interface pharmacist post to bridge the information gap and facilitating patients care across the primary and secondary care with Homerton Hospital. Zoe qualified as a pharmacist in 1990, worked in community for variety of independent and chain pharmacies. In 1993, she was appointed as a lecturer at the school of pharmacy, university of London where she also carried out her research on quality of the medical and pharmaceutical counselling in primary care. She was awarded her PhD in 2001 and her work contributed to introduction of audit in community pharmacy by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1996.