Paul J Torzillo AM MB BS FRACP FJFICM

photo of Mr Paul Torzillo Paul Torzillo is a Senior Respiratory Physician and Intensive Care Physician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and is also the Clinical Director for Critical Care Services in Sydney South Western Area health Service. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney.

He has been involved in Aboriginal health since he was a medical student in the early 1970s. He was involved in a number of western NSW Aboriginal communities then and worked on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program. In 1983 he helped establish Nganampa Health Council working as a medical officer. He has had a continuous involvement with that organisation since then and is currently the Medical Director. He has been a member of many national committees on research, policy and service implementation in Aboriginal Health. He has had a major interest in health services development for remote Aboriginal communities. His other main area of work has been in environmental health and housing maintenance programs—known as Housing for Health projects. He has published widely in Aboriginal health and served on a range of national committees covering many issues in Aboriginal health. In 2005 Professor Torzillo was awarded the Order of Australia (AM).

His first work in developing countries was in PNG in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However his primary interest in International Health has been in work with the WHO Division of Child and Adolescent health in the Program for control of Acute Respiratory Infections. He worked as a short term professional in the division in 1995, primarily in the area of the impact of antibiotic resistance on case management guidelines. Since then he has continued to give technical advice particularly on research projects. In addition he has a keen interest in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and was one of the participants in the first training courses for IMCI held in Ethiopia. He has subsequently worked in both technical advice and development of the generic algorithm and as consultant for adaptation and clinical instructor in Vietnam.

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