Josef Trapani holds a bachelor's degree in nursing studies and a master's degree in Public Health from University of Malta, and a PhD from the University of Brighton. He worked as a staff nurse and clinical mentor in the Intensive Therapy Unit at St Luke's Hospital and Mater Dei Hospital for several years. Between 2006 and 2008 he co-ordinated a nation-wide intravenous therapy course for qualified nurses run by the Directorate for Nursing Services.
He joined the University of Malta's Faculty of Health Sciences (then Institute of Health Care) as an assistant lecturer in February 2008, and was promoted to Lecturer in April 2014. He is involved in teaching and coordination duties in the areas of critical care, research, evidence based practice and clinical skills and supervises dissertations at undergraduate and post-graduate level. He has been teaching on an online bachelor's degree programme since 2009, and acted as the Department of Nursing's International Coordinator for several years. He was appointed academic coordinator of the B.Sc. (Hons) Health Science programme in September 2018.
Josef Trapani is also a co-editor of Nursing in Critical Care and a peer reviewer for various academic journals.
