Professor Ben Willem Mol

Professor Ben (Willem) Mol (MD, PhD (cum laude), MSc (Economics), FRANZCOG) is a clinical academic who combines clinical research with clinical work. Since arrival in Australia in 2014, he holds an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship-funded and investigator grant. Ben is recognised in annually by ‘The Australian’ as Australia’s top researcher in Reproductive Health. Ben organizes randomised clinical trials in Australia and overseas, with a developing portfolio in China and VietNam. He has conceived and led 130 RCTs (28 in IF>30 journals) and individual participant data meta-analyses (10 in IF>10 journals), resulting in NEJM and Lancet papers. His work has changed practice in infertility (lifestyle, tubal flushing, assisted reproduction) and obstetrics (prevention and treatment of preterm birth, pre-eclampsia, induction of labour). Since 2020, Ben has spent considerable time in the detection and whistleblowing of scientific fraud (data-fabrication) in obstetrics and gynaecology, resulting in 500 retracted/EoC papers and increasing awareness of this problem.