Doctor Richmond Davies has been working in NHS Scotland for 28 years after he decided to relocate from England for further studies. He has worked in various NHS roles from hospital clinical to statistical analysis and finally to senior public health leadership. He heads up analytics for public mental health, child health, cancer, and harmful health behaviours as well as being a data protection officer. Richmond is passionate about preventing disease and minimising its consequences, reducing inequities in health, prolonging valued life, and improving the health and wellbeing of the population, underpinned by robust data, statistics, and intelligence. Richmond has had other roles in his career. He was an NHS statistical advisor to the Scottish Government, a professional civil engineer involved in the consultation and design phases of junction 11a of the M5 motorway in Gloucestershire, an instructor of mathematics in a high school in Essex, and an associate senior lecturer at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. Richmond looks forward to the future for opportunities, with safeguards, that Artificial Intelligence which includes machine learning, deep learning, and large language models will bring to transform healthcare and contribute to addressing the wider determinants of health.