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Tilman Ruff

Honorary
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
humans
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
general & internal medicine
vaccination
medicine, general & internal
hepatitis b vaccines
female
immunization
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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Travel medicine
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Tilman Ruff.

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The danger and the consequences. Chapter 3. In Romuld G (ed). Choosing Humanity: Why Australia must join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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Report  |  2019

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Manual of Travel Medicine Fourth Edition

Joseph Torresi, Sarah McGuinness, Karen Leder, Daniel O'Brien, Tilman Ruff, Mike Starr, Katherine Gibney

Book  |  2019

The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel..

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Manual of Travel Medicine

Joseph Torresi, Sarah McGuinness, Karin Leder, Daniel O’Brien, Tilman Ruff, Mike Starr, Katherine Gibney

Book  |  2019

The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel..

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Australian health professionals' statement on climate change and health

Kerry Arabena, Fiona Armstrong, Helen Berry, Peter Brooks, Tony Capon, Brendan Crabb, Alessandro Demaio, Peter Doherty, Sharon Lewin, Selina Lo, Alan Lopez, Celia McMichael, Barbara McPake, Rob Moodie, Terry Nolan, Tilman Ruff, Peter Sainsbury, Linda Selvey, David Shearman, Fiona Stanley, et al.

Journal article  |  2018  |  LANCET

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Support for UNRWA's survival.

Karl Blanchet, Abbas El-Zein, Ana Langer, Miho Sato, undefined 159 signatories

Journal article  |  2018  |  Lancet

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Bill Williams 22 September 1958-12 September 2016

Tilman A Ruff, Jim S Rossiter

Journal article  |  2017  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

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Bill Williams

TA Ruff, JS Rossiter

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Medical journal of Australia

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The humanitarian impact and implications of nuclear test explosions in the Pacific region

Tilman A Ruff

Journal article  |  2015  |  INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS

The people of the Pacific region have suffered widespread and persisting radioactive contamination, displacement and transgenerati..

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WHO must remain a strong global health leader post Ebola.

Adam Kamradt-Scott, Sophie Harman, Joao Nunes, Anne Roemer-Mahler, Clare Wenham

Journal article  |  2015  |  Lancet

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Introduction to the special issue: Nuclear power in East Asia

T Ruff

Journal article  |  2015  |  Asian Perspective

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Keyword Analysis

Public Health
Clinical Health
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Clinical Sciences
Health Services and Systems
Other Health
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)
Expanding Knowledge
Immunology

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Tilman Ruff.

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The nuclear weapons ban treaty is groundbreaking, even if the nuclear powers haven't signed

Tilman Ruff

KCNA via KNS/APToday, many around the world will celebrate the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty to..

January 21, 2021
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315 nuclear bombs and ongoing suffering: the shameful history of nuclear testing in Australia and the Pacific

Tilman Ruff, Dimity Hawkins

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware this article contains the name of a deceased person. The Treaty on the Prohi..

November 2, 2020
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Japan plans to dump a million tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific. But Australia has nuclear waste problems, too

Tilman Ruff, Margaret Beavis

The Japanese government recently announced plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of radioactive water from the severely d..

October 22, 2020
conversation Article
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Would cockroaches really survive a nuclear apocalypse?

Mark Elgar, Tilman Ruff

The 2008 film Wall-E depicted Earth as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with nothing on it but the abandoned remnants of human society and a for..

February 7, 2019
pursuit Article
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Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions

Alex Edney-Browne, Tilman Ruff

The Australian government is undertaking its biggest defence build-up since the second world war. Research partnerships between Australian u..

March 15, 2018
conversation Article
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How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize

Tilman Ruff, Dimity Hawkins

Tilman Ruff (back centre) and a group of ICAN campaigners protest outside Australia's permanent mission to the UN at Geneva. Tim Wright,..

October 9, 2017
conversation Article
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Australia must sign the prohibition on nuclear weapons: here's why

Tilman Ruff

On Wednesday a historic ceremony will take place in the UN General Assembly – the opening for signature of the Treaty on the Prohibition of ..

September 20, 2017
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As the world pushes for a ban on nuclear weapons, Australia votes to stay on the wrong side of history

Tilman Ruff

More than 70 years after the Hiroshima bombing, a majority of countries are pushing for a legally-binding treaty against nuclear weapons. Ti..

November 15, 2016
conversation Article
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Fukushima: The misery piles up

Tilman Ruff

Five years on, the Fukushima nuclear disaster is far from over – the dispersed fallout continues to irradiate and move around the environmen..

March 10, 2016
pursuit Article
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We need one law for all

Tilman Ruff

North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, claimed on state TV to be its first of a hydrogen bomb, leaves little room for doubt that North Korea is ..

January 6, 2016
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2001

Australian Timber Design Awards
1977

Commonwealth University Scholarship

Monash University
1974

Ramsay Surgical Prize in Zoology

Monash University
1988

FRACP - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Education

Bachelor of Medicine

Monash University

Bachelor of Surgery

Monash University

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