HepHero Tilman Ruff talks about how we can conquer hepatitis and end the threat of nuclear war

Tilman Ruff is one of Hepatitis Victoria's latest HepHeros. He has spent the past 20 years fighting to get hep B vaccinations to vulnerable populations in the Asia Pacific. "For about 20 years I assisted national immunisation programs in Pacific island countries with hepatitis B control and more broadly, working with WHO and UNICEF," Tilman says. "Now I serve on an expert committee on hepatitis B control for the Western Pacific Region of WHO, helping countries check how their immunisation and hepatitis B control programs are going and working with them to figure out how to make them work better." Tilman was a founding member of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was recently awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. "Like hepatitis B, nuclear war can be prevented and nuclear weapons eradicated," he says.