Committee Members

The membership of the Committee represents a range of expertise within the broad fields of occupational health and safety. The Committee meets at least five times a year to discuss issues related to its Terms of Reference and to review progress on its work programme.

Members have been appointed for periods of either two or three years.

Membership of NOHSAC - August 2008

Professor Neil Pearce (Chair)

Professor Neil Pearce is currently the Professor and Director of the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University. Professor Pearce has extensive research experience with particular interests in occupational epidemiology, asthma epidemiology and more general public health research.

Professor Pearce has previous experience in chairing committees, including chairing the HRC Public Health Research Committee.

Since 1988 Professor Pearce has been appointed to numerous committees advising Government, including the Occupational Health Technical Advisory Committee and the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Work-related Gradual Process, Disease, or Infection.

http://publichealth.massey.ac.nz/

Dr Evan Dryson

Dr Evan Dryson is a practising occupational medicine specialist, lecturer and the immediate past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians – Faculty of Occupational Medicine.

Dr Dryson has significant expertise and experience in the clinical practice, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of people with occupational disease. He has strong affiliations with a range of international occupational health/disease bodies.

Dr Dryson has also published widely in New Zealand and overseas on original research into occupational medicine.

Professor Anne-Marie Feyer

Professor Anne-Marie Feyer is a Director of Health/Risk Management Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Sydney. She also has a professorial appointment in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Otago.

Professor Feyer has extensive experience in occupational health and safety in both New Zealand and Australia.

Her research interests are in occupational injury epidemiology, fatigue management and work-related determinants of health and well-being.

Professor Philippa Gander

Professor Philippa Gander is currently the Director of the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University in Wellington.

Professor Gander's research interests are in circadian and sleep physiology and its implications for occupational safety and health, particularly in shiftwork. She has extensive international experience in developing and implementing fatigue and shiftwork management programmes with the transport sector.

http://sleepwake.massey.ac.nz/

Professor John Langley

Professor Langley is the Director of the Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU). He has been involved in injury prevention research since 1978, and received his PhD from the University of Otago in 1985. He has written numerous articles in academic, professional and lay publications on a wide range of injury prevention issues. He tends to use quantitative research methods, especially epidemiological. He is an active advocate for improvements in injury prevention policy and practice.

http://www.otago.ac.nz/ipru/