Dr. Farizah Mohd Hairi has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a Public Health Physician, from 1995 in the Ministry of Health Malaysia to a present-day Associate Professor in the Health Policy and Management discipline at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. Dr. Farizah has worked in the medical and health field for more than 25 years; she has 21 years of experience in research, teaching, and management at the University of Malaya. She is actively involved in broad areas of research as a principal investigator and co-investigator, with a total amount of research grant worth more than RM 1 million; she has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, H index 13, and presented more than 50 papers at local and international conferences. She is a member of research centres in the University of Malaya, namely the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence Based Practice, Centre for Population Health (CePH), and the Nicotine Addiction research collaboration group (NARCC) of University Malaya Centre of Addiction Sciences (UMCAS). Her current research themes are Precision Public Health, Stroke Community Rehabilitation (SCORE); Prevent Elder Abuse and Neglect Initiatives (PEACE); SCOPE (Smoking Cessation: Organizing, Planning and Execution), i.e., training healthcare professionals on smoking cessation; and International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, ITC Malaysia (MYS1) Survey Cohort 2 (2020).