Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Current Representations
HIV
Member, Asia Pacific Drug Issues Committee of the Australian National Council on Drugs (Nick Crofts)
Deputy Chair, the International Harm Reduction Association (NC)Member, Board of the Youth Substance Abuse Service (Nick Crofts)
Participation in the Second Meeting of the UN Regional Partnership Forum on HIV and Sex Work in Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok) (Tim Moore)
Gender Advisor, AusAID HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program (Martha Morrow)
Member, Asia Pacific Drug Issues Committee of the Australian National Council on Drugs (Nick Crofts)
Member, UN Commission on AIDS in the Pacific (Rob Moodie)
Chair, Technical Advisory Panel Avahan (Rob Moodie)
Member, Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV/AIDS, Steering Committee (Rob Moodie)
Chair, Program Coordination Committee, HIV Consortium for Capacity Building in Asia and the Pacific (Rob Moodie)
Maternal and child health
Visiting Scholar at the Public Health Sciences Division at the University of Edinburgh Medical School (June 2008) to discuss work in Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) (Kit Yee Chan)
Maternal Health Technical Advisory Group, Women?s and Children?s Health Knowledge Hub (Martha Morrow)
Mental health
Co Chair, Scientific Committee 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, Sept 2008 (Rob Moodie, Michelle Kermode)
Clinical advisor and member of Expert advisory group to beyondblue.(Grant Blashki)
Immunisation Program and Policy Support
Temporary WHO Advisor, WHO/UNICEF Pacific Immunisation Program Strengthening Workshop, Rarotonga, 12-16 May 2008 (Tilman Ruff)
Chair of Australian Advisory Board, 10 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline Australia (Tilman Ruff)
Member Asia-Pacific Advisory Board, PHiD-CV pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline (Tilman Ruff)
Advisory board meetings 'Addressing meningococcal disease in the Middle East and Africa' and 'Infant vaccination schedules: Options for improving implementation? Novartis Vaccines, 19 June 2008, Kuala Lumpur (Tilman Ruff)
Invited member, International Expert Meeting on Hepatitis B Control in the Western Pacific, Korean CDC and WHO WPRO, Seoul 24-5 Nov 2008 (Tilman Ruff)
Co-organiser and speaker, Southeast Asia Mekong Regional Immunisation Forum for senior immunisation program managers, Phnom Penh, 4-6 Nov 2008 (Tilman Ruff)
Health promotion/prevention
Chair of the Audit Expert Group of Melbourne 2030 (Rob Moodie)
Facilitation of the Annual Oxford Health Alliance Summit Feb 2008. (Rob Moodie)
Development of privately funded project grant for twinning between Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo and Nossal Institute/UoM . (Rob Moodie, Jim Black)
Member, Board of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) (Rob Moodie)
University of Melbourne Social Justice Initiative Roundtable, 25 June 2008 (Tilman Ruff)
Chair, National Preventative Health Taskforce 2008 - (Rob Moodie)
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Initiative
One of 2 civil society representatives on Australian government delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee in Geneva 2008 (first such representation on an Australian NPT delegation) (Tilman Ruff)
Co-Chair, Model negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention, 3 May 2008 , Geneva (Tilman Ruff)
Chair, Australian Management Committee, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (Tilman Ruff)
Chair, ICAN Working Group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Tilman Ruff)
Member, Board of Directors, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Tilman Ruff)
Member and inaugural meeting convenor, Australian Research Network on Nuclear Disarmament (Tilman Ruff)
NGO advisor to Co-Chairs Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi, International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (Tilman Ruff)
Invited expert on radiation and health for NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the former uranium smelter site at Hunter's Hill, Sydney (TR)Member, EnergyScience Coalition, (2006-) www.energyscience.org.au (Tilman Ruff)
Japanese NGO delegation meetings with Diet members from all major political parties responsible for security and foreign policy at their respective parties, including Taro Kono of the Liberal Democratic Party, Katsuya Okada of the Democratic Party of Japan, Masao Akamatsu of New Komeito, Satoshi Inoue of the Japanese Communist Party, and Mizuho Fukushima of the Social Democratic Party; and with ICNND advisor Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe, March 2009 (Tilman Ruff)