Michael Moore is a registered toxicologist (Eurotox and Institute of Biology, UK). He is currently Director of The National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (EnTox). He holds the positions of; Professor in Medicine at the University of Queensland; Adjunct Professor of Public Health in Griffith University; Honorary Lecturer in the University of Cape Town Adjunct Professor of Science in the Sunshine Coast University and Adjunct Professor in Queensland University of Technology. He is a director of the Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment. He has a PhD in Medicine and was awarded a Doctorate in Science in the field of biochemistry in medicine and has trained in Clinical Pharmacology. He recently chaired the NHMRC working group on air quality in tunnels. His fields of interest include the toxicology of metals, air toxics, risk assessment, alcoholism, cyanobacteria, herbal medicines and disorders of porphyrin metabolism. He was previously director of Queensland Health Scientific Services. Michael worked previously in the University of Glasgow, where he held the position of Reader in Medicine and Therapeutics. He also worked in Groote Schuur Hospital, the University of Cape Town. He trained in clinical pharmacology in the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London. He has worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the Medical University, Debrecen, Hungary, was Visiting Professor in Huazhong University in Wuhan PRC, and examiner in The City University Hong Kong. He is a member of the advisory board of the APVMA.
He is currently; member of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee and of the National Drugs and Poisons Schedules Committee; He was: Member of the NHMRC Working party on Toxicology and Risk Assessment; Chair, NHMRC Drinking water treatment chemicals working party; Member of the National Dioxins Consultative Group (NDCG); Member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Environment Australia's Air Toxics forum; Member Department of Veterans Affairs, Korean Veterans Mortality Study advisory committee and Member Korean Veterans Health Study scientific advisory committees; Member Scientific Advisory Committee on the Study of Health Outcomes in Aircraft Maintenance Personnel (SHOAMP) of DVA; Trustee - The Porphyrias Charitable Trust (UK); IFCC Working Group on the Diagnosis of Porphyria; Rapporteur to Commission of the European Communities on Biological effects of Lead. He is member of the British Toxicology Society, The Biochemical Society, the Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology and the Tetrapyrrole Discussion Group. He is a Rotarian and was director of an NHS hospital Trust and Justice of the Peace in Scotland. Michael has written and edited several books, numerous book chapters and over 500 research publications.
The National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, EnTox, is a Centre of excellence that addresses the need for national and international research into human environmental toxicology.
EnTox's strengths focus on undertaking multidisciplinary research directed at environmental health issues arising from exposure to environmental substances. This approach places major emphasis on environmental health risk assessment as the basis for research and training needs.
