Lubna is a PhD candidate on a NHMRC funded project investigating whether scheduling periods of outdoor play affect physical activity in children attending childcare. This has involved conducting rigorous trials to test simple interventions on healthy lifestyle risk factors for scalable uptake for population impact and identifying strategies to overcome barriers to implementation. She has over ten years experience in health promotion and disease prevention research in Singapore and Brunei. For the Health Promotion Board Singapore, she led the evaluation on two national campaigns, the Integrated Mental Health Education (awareness on depression, dementia and schizophrenia) campaign and the annual Healthy Lifestyle campaign with the central message of ‘Know your BMI’. As the monitoring and evaluation lead for noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in Brunei, she was in charge of research initiatives for the implementation of the National Action Plan which was adopted in 2013.Under her purview, three population wide surveys (World Health Organization Global Student based Health Survey (13-17 years), Tobacco questions for Surveys incorporated into the NCD mass media campaign evaluation (15+ years) and the NCD STEPS survey – risk factor surveillance for adults (18-69 years) were conducted. She obtained her Masters in Public Health qualification from the University of Sheffield.