Dr Bruce Armstrong AM

Bruce Armstrong graduated in biochemistry and medicine from the University of Western Australia, trained as a physician at the Royal Perth Hospital and as an epidemiologist with Sir Richard Doll at the University of Oxford. He has variously been Professor of Epidemiology and Cancer Research at the University of Western Australia, Commissioner of Health for Western Australia, Deputy Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Director of Cancer Research and Registers at The Cancer Council NSW, Head of the School of Public Health at The University of Sydney and now Director of Research at the Sydney Cancer Centre. He is also a Professor Public Health and a Medical Foundation Fellow at The University of Sydney.

He is known nationally and internationally as an authority on the causes and prevention of skin cancer and melanoma and has made important contributions to knowledge on the causes and control of other cancers, high blood pressure and heart disease. His present major research interests are in the genetic and environmental epidemiology of cancer and the quality and performance of cancer services.

Bruce has authored over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters and is the lead author of Principles of Exposure Measurement in Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press. Bruce was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day 1998 for services to medicine through research in cancer epidemiology, elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2000 and honoured in 2006 at the 6th World Congress on Melanoma in Vancouver with an award for a lifetime of achievement in basic research into melanoma.

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