Tilman RUFF

Bio

Dr. Tilman Ruff AO is a physician, immediate past co-president and board member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985); co-founder, founding chair and Australian board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize 2017); and Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.

He is a past national president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia). Dr. Ruff was director of travel medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital, worked on hepatitis B control, immunisation and maternal and child health in Indonesia and Pacific island countries; and documented the link between nuclear tests and outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning in the Pacific. He was Australian Red Cross international medical advisor 1996-2019 and founding member of WHO's Western Pacific Expert Resource Panel on Hepatitis B Control.