MonCOEH's Director Prof Malcolm Sim has been awarded
the Dean’s Award for Excellence in External Engagement for his valuable work
with a variety of national and international organisations These include the
Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service
Authorities Council, the Defence Health Foundation and Safe Work Australia. He is also on the Australian Institute for
Health and Welfare’s Human Research Ethics Committee.
Prof Sim collaborated with the
National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control in China to
improve occupational disease diagnosis and surveillance in China. He is also on the Editorial
Board of the Cochrane OSH Review Group, based at the Finnish Institute of
Occupational Health and was an invited member of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Expert Scientific Committee to develop Monograph 102 on radiofrequency
electromagnetic fields.
Prof Sim is also Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Occupational
and Environmental Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya
and at Mahidol University in Bangkok. He
was elected to the Board of the International Commission on Occupational Health
(ICOH) in 2012.
The award
also took into account Prof Sim’s research projects over the past three
years. His research primarily
investigates occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic
diseases, such as cancer and respiratory disease, exposure assessment,
occupational disease surveillance, veteran and firefighter health research and
the health effects of environmental exposures to mobile phones.
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