Michael Harry Repacholi (born June 30, 1944 in Taree, NSW, Australia) is an Australian biophysicist and radiation protection expert.
After completing his master's degree in 1969, he was offered a position as a radiation physicist at the Alan Blair Memorial Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada where he worked as a radiotherapy treatment planner for cancer patients.
Repacholi then took up the position of Chief Scientist at Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia in 1983 where he continued work in radiation protection and research on applications of electromagnetic fields (EMF) for medical procedures.
This committee was responsible for developing international guidance on NIR protection and particularly exposure limits to EMF, that quickly became accepted by many countries dealing with significant public concern about health effects from these fields.
He was made Coordinator of WHO's Radiation and Health Unit with responsibilities for conducting research and providing humanitarian assistance to the three countries most affected by the Chernobyl accident, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Repacholi was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2002 by the Belarusian State Medical University at Minsk for his significant contributions to Belarus on the Chernobyl accident.
This successful project on electromagnetic radiation and its health effects has now been continuing at WHO for over 25 years and provides national authorities with sound advice and reports on the health effects of emissions of EMF from such devices as mobile phones and their base stations, WiFi, power lines, as well as medical, commercial and industrial applications of EMF.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by San Marcos University in Lima in 2011 for his significant contributions to Peru on non-ionizing radiation protection issues.
and has taught at La Sapienza University in Rome and at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice (Sicily).
Repacholi was the only foreign scientists to participate on the UK Government independent expert group on mobile phones (Stewart Report) in 2000.
He is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) at La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, but lives in Perth, Australia.