Ron Borland PhD is the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, The Cancer Council Victoria; a Professorial Fellow in the School of Population Health and Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne; and an honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
He joined the then Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria as a Behavioural Scientist in 1986, and has been here ever since in various roles including Deputy Director of the CBRC, and inaugural Director of the VicHealth Cente for Tobacco Control, before he took up his current position in 2004.
He has published over 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals, mostly related to aspects of tobacco control, but also on skin cancer prevention and other cancer prevention issues.
Professor Borland is one of the Principal Investigators of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project. His work is designed to understand the impact on smokers of tobacco control policies, help design better systems for regulating tobacco, understanding what is needed for optimum community-wide tobacco control, and identify barriers to stronger governmental tobacco control initiatives. He also has an active interest in developing and improving mass disseminable cessation aids, and the potential of automated personalised computer technologies and the internet for advancing cancer control.
He has presented at major international conferences on visions for the future of tobacco control.
