Associate Professor Tilman Ruff
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Nossal Institute for Global Health
Level 4, Alan Gilbert Building
Corner of Barry and Grattan Streets (161 Barry St)
The University of Melbourne
Carlton, Victoria, 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 0927
Fax: +61 3 9347 6872
Email: tar@unimelb.edu.au |
Associate Professor Tilman Ruff is an infectious diseases and public health physician with particular interests in vaccines and immunisation. In addition to his work at the Nossal Institute, he serves as medical advisor to the international department of the Australian Red Cross and as technical advisor to the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and UNICEF on immunisation programs in Pacific island countries. Tilman has played a leading role in the development of travel medicine, worked extensively on control of hepatitis B, immunisation, and maternal and child health in Indonesia and Pacific island countries, and was previously regional medical director for vaccines for a major vaccine manufacturer. He has been active in the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) for 24 years and is now its national president and involved in the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Since 2006 he helped to establish the Australian Management Committee of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and is now its Chair. In October 2008 was invited by Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign Minister, and Yoriko Kawaguchi, former Japanese foreign and environment minister, to serve as one of two NGO advisors to them in their roles as Co-Chairs of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament established by the governments of Australia and Japan.