Professor Malcolm Sim

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

BMedSc, MBBS, MSc, GDipOccHyg, MSc, PhD, FAFOEM, 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 20 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 exposures, occupational disease surveillance, veterans' health, cohort studies of working populations and exposure assessment. Malcolm is the Principal Investigator for a NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant concerned with building capacity in workplace public health.  He is a co-investigator on several national and international collaborative studies and is a co-leader of the Occupational and Environmental Health program of the Monash Initiative for Global Health Improvement (MIGHI). His research group was awarded the Victorian Public Health Research Excellence Award in 2005.

Malcolm is the Deputy Editor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, one of the specialty journals of the BMJ group.  He is also an Associate Editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health.  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 and Environmental Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, for which he was awarded a College Medal for outstanding service in 2003.  He is also an external examiner at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is involved in collaborative projects in workplace health surveillance with Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand.