Professor and Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town South Africa.
Relevant positions
Member, National Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (ACOHS)
Member, Technical Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits, ACOHS, Department of Labour
Member, Technical Committee of Occuational Diseases, Compensation Board, Department of Labour
Member, Scientific Committee on Occupational Epidemiology , ICOH
Board member, Fogarty International training programme in occupational and environmental health
Editorial Board, BMC Occupational medicine and toxicology
Editorial Board, Americal Journal of Industrial Medicine
Chairperson, Division of Occupational Medicine, College of Public Health Medicine, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.
Honorary Life Member, South African Society for Occupational Medicine
Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, ITALY/USA
Research Interests
Health effects of chrome 6
Nervous and reproductive system effects of manganese and pesticides
Methodological issues in estimating exposure-response relationships
Educational Interests
Postgraduate education in occupational health
Convenor of a postgraduate diploma in occupational health
Development of web-based and multimedia learning materials
Occupational epidemiology