Professor Malcolm Sim

Director, Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH)

BMedSc, MBBS, MSc, GDipOccHyg, MSc, PhD, FAFOM, FAFPHM, FFOM

Phone: +61 3 9903 0582
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Malcolm Sim is an Occupational Physician and epidemiologist who leads a team of about 25 research staff in the Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH). His main research interests include the human health effects of occupational and environmental chemical and other exposures, occupational disease surveillance, veterans' health and exposure assessment. Malcolm is the Principal Investigator for the Healthwise and Health Watch cohort studies and other cohort studies of lead and agricultural workers. He has published over 120 articles and research reports. He is a co-investigator on several national and international collaborative studies. His veteran health group was awarded the Victorian Public Health Research Excellence Award in 2005 for the Australian Gulf War Veterans’ Health Study.

Malcolm is an Associate Editor for the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is also an elected member of the Management Group of the Scientific Committee for Epidemiology in Occupational Health of ICOH and was chair of the organising committee for the International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH 2004) which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2004. Malcolm is the course coordinator for the Masters degree in Occupational and Environmental Health at Monash and has been very active in the Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, for which he was awarded a College Medal for outstanding service in 2003.