Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health & Sport
Shona Robison was born in Redcar in 1966. Educated at Alva Academy, she went on to graduate from Glasgow University with a Social Sciences MA and Jordanhill College with a Postgraduate Certificate in Community Education. Previously she worked for Glasgow City Councils Social Work Department.
She was MSP for the North East from 1999-2003 and elected MSP for Dundee East in 2003. Latterly she was Shadow Minster for Health and Social Justice and a member of the Parliaments Health Committee before being appointed Minister for Public Health in the Scottish Government formed after the May 2007 election.
She is married to Stewart Hosie MP, with a daughter and lives in Dundee.
