Dr Sharad Paul is a New Zealand-based skin cancer specialist, social entrepreneur, and author. In this Q&A with Chitra Nair, APAC Pathology Lead at Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific, he shares his thoughts on key issues in skin health management and what they mean for the practice of laboratory medicine, drawing upon his vast clinical experience, his research in evolutionary biology, and his work as an author of both fiction and nonfiction.