Tim Driscoll is an occupational epidemiologist and a specialist in occupational and environmental medicine and public health medicine. He is Professor in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and an expert advisor at the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute. Tim’s main areas of interest include the burden of occupational disease and injury; occupational cancer and exposure to occupational carcinogens, particularly asbestos and silica; occupational lung disease; and improving the communication of epidemiological principles and findings to the general public.