Assoc. Professor David Heslop

Dr David Heslop is an Associate Professor at the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney and is a clinically active GP and Occupational and Environmental Physician. He has deployed to a wide variety of military and humanitarian assistance environments, and has deep knowledge and skills in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Medicine, policy development and advice. He was Senior Medical Officer for Special Operations Command, the Officer Commanding and Senior Medical Officer to the ADF CBRNE medical incident response team, now providing specialist advice and support to senior military and industry partners Since 2016 he has worked as a full time Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, with a key focus on developing collaborative research opportunities between military and industry, developing computational models of health systems under emergency and crisis conditions, and health system optimisation such as Digital Twin models and Agent Based Modelling and Simulation.

Clinically, Dr Heslop is an active Occupational and Environmental Physician and General Practitioner. He routinely advises in various aspects of high risk workplaces, major hazards, health systems and risk to resource, mining, health, manufacturing, Defence, scientific and technical agencies, Border Force and corporates across Australian federal, state and territory and in international contexts. This has covered the full range of occupational and environmental medicine practice from risk assessment, hazard and health surveillance, environmental risk assessment, health risk assessment, compliance and assurance, audit, and change management/remediation activities. He also is asked to conduct regular clinical reviews of complex injury management cases and advises on optimal treatment, rehabilitation and return to work strategies for injured workers.