Professor Paul Rheeder is a trained specialist physician with a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology obtained from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He occupied the Medihelp Chair in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pretoria for 10 years. He is past Acting Head of the School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria and heads the university’s Diabetes Research Centre. He is a past member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Prevention in Cardiology. He is married with 3 children.