Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific (PDF)

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Prof Rusli Bin Nordin is Professor of Public Health and Head of the Clinical School Johor Bahru, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. As an Occupational Health Physician and specialist in public health medicine, Rusli develops a special research interest in understanding the relation between psychosocial factors at work and health of workers including the impact of interventions to improve the mental health of working populations. He has successfully organised the Second Asia Pacific Expert Workshop on Psychosocial Factors at Work in July 2011 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia following the success of the First Expert Workshop in Darwin, Australia in July 2010. Currently he is the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work and the National Representative for Malaysia. Rusli is on the Editorial Board of Industrial Health, International Journal of Public Health Research, and Journal of Medical Safety. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Risk Management in Medicine (IARMM).

Professor Paula Brough is a Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, Australia. Her key research areas include: occupational stress, coping, the psychological health of high-risk workers (e.g., emergency service workers, correctional workers), work-life balance, and the effective measurement of psychological constructs. Professor Brough has published over 80 scholarly books, journal articles and book chapters based on her research, is the Chief Investigator on numerous local, national and international research grants, and supervises both post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers. Her professional responsibilities include: Editorial Board memberships, reviewer for psychology academic journals, industry adviser, and assessor for both University and national research grant competitions.

Dr Michelle Tuckey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia. She leads a program of research on work and well-being, focussing on occupational stress and workplace bullying. Dr Tuckey has won nationally competitive research funding, given plenary addresses at national conferences, and presented in invited symposia at leading international conferences. By invitation she currently serves on the editorial board of two international journals - International Journal of Stress Management and Stress and Health - and she is Chair of the Scientific Committee for the 2014 Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health - Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors.