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Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO

Founding chair of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

“Leaders of the World – How Can We Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Before They Are Used Again?”

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Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO

Tilman Ruff (MB BS, FRACP) is a physician whose work addresses the public health dimensions of nuclear technology, especially the urgent planetary health imperative to eradicate nuclear weapons.

Tilman is the founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985), and Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. He was international medical advisor for Australian Red Cross 1996-2019, worked on hepatitis B control, immunisation and maternal and child health in Indonesia and Pacific island countries with the Australian and NZ government aid programs, Burnet Institute, UNICEF and WHO.

ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “… for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”. ICAN is the first Australian-born Nobel Peace Laureate. Dr Ruff has been active in the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) which established ICAN since 1982 and is a past national president.

He was one of two civil society advisors to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the first civil society representative on Australian nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty delegations, and a civil society delegate to the landmark intergovernmental Conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Norway, Mexico and Austria (2013-14). In 2017, he led the IPPNW delegation in New York through the negotiation of the historic United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into legal force on 22 Jan 2021.