Dr David Heslop is an Associate Professor at the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney, and a practicing vocationally registered General Practitioner (FRACGP), an Occupational and Environmental Physician (FAFOEM) with RACP.. He retains military responsibilities as Senior Medical Adviser for CBRNE to the Australian Army and to Australian Defence Force (ADF) leadership. During a military career of over 15 years he has deployed into a...view more
Dr David Heslop is an Associate Professor at the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney, and a practicing vocationally registered General Practitioner (FRACGP), an Occupational and Environmental Physician (FAFOEM) with RACP.. He retains military responsibilities as Senior Medical Adviser for CBRNE to the Australian Army and to Australian Defence Force (ADF) leadership. During a military career of over 15 years he has deployed into a variety of complex and austere combat environments, and has advanced international training in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Medicine. He has experience in planning for and management of major disasters, mass casualty and multiple casualty situations. He is regularly consulted and participate in the development and review of national and international clinical and operational general military and CBRNE policy and doctrine. His research interests lie in health and medical systems innovation and research using computational modelling and simulation to address otherwise intractable problems.
My Grants
- MRFF Frontiers Grant Stage 1. EPIWATCH - Global Epidemic Intelligence Observatory and Early Warning System. Chief Investigator. $1,000,000. 2021-2022.
- NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence. BREATHE. Airborne threats to Health. Chief Investigator. $2,500,000 over 5 years. 2022-2027.
- Defence Strategic Policy Grant Scheme. Boxwood Scenarios. Exploring the impact of climate change and geopolitical change on CBRNE proliferation. $99,000. 2021-2023
- NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence. Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER). Chief Investigator. $2,500,000 over 5 years. 2016-2021.
- Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group). Chimaera Evolution – An experiment by simulation framework to support CBR medical planning, preparedness and operational response. Bioterrorism Stream collaborative research grant. Chief Investigator. $575,000 over 3 years. FY 17-19
- 2x Industry funded reseatch grants totalling $210,000.
My Qualifications
- Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (FAFOEM)
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)
- Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (AFRACMA)
- Doctor of Philosophy (USyd)
- Master of Public Health (USyd)
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) (USyd)
- Bachelor of Science (Advanced) Honours 1 (USyd)
My Research Activities
My interests lie in health and medical systems innovation and research. I retain linkages with key national civilian and military education, research and development organisations and retain an active involvement in a wide variety of projects and initiatives supporting national public health preparedness goals.
My current research effort and interests touch on complexity science, agent based and deterministic modelling, emergent complex adaptive systems phenomena, test and evaluation of systems, policy research, epidemic modelling, exotic and emerging infections, disaster preparedness and response, organisational resilience in health care, development of robust socio-technical systems in health care, and the modelling, simulation and investigation of public health interventions and systems.
Methods that I utilise in my research are:
- Sociotechnical systems modeling and simulation
- Hybrid Modeling (Agent Based Modeling, Discrete Event Modeling, System Dynamics)
- Artificial intelligence and autonomous agents
- Qualitative and mixed methods
- Epidemiology
- Geospatial/GIS based approaches
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
I am willing to supervise across a broad range of research areas relating to the following fields, utilising traditional and also novel qualitative, quantitative and computational methods and techniques:
- Emergency Response Systems
- Emergency Medical Response Systems
- Epidemic Response Systems
- Computational Modeling and Simulation in Health Systems
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Emergency Response
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Medical Management
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Expedition and Military Medicine
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Currently supervising
Post-Doctoral Researcher:
- Dr Mitko Alexandrov (Faculty of Built Environment)
Higher Degree (PhD) Candidates:
- Abigail Trewin (Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
- Arshpreet Sran (Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
- Lynelle Hales (Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
- Sean Casey (Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
- Nathan George (Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
- Haley Stone (PhD - Kirby Institute)
- Mohana Kunasekaran (PhD - Kirby Institute)
- Shovon Bhattacharjee (PhD - Kirby Institute)
Medical Program Project Supervision:
2022
- Mr Jordan Zhang (UNSW Clinical AI ILP)
2021
2019
- Mr Stewart McNamara (ILP)
- Mark Butorac (ILP)
2018
2017
- James Niddrie (ILP)
- Jack Connolly (ILP)
- Jia Ong (ILP)
- Zahran Tohid (ILP)
- John Vassil (ILP)
My Teaching
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