He has published around 250 original research papers (H-factor around 80) and for several years served as an Editor-in-Chief of Food and Chemical Toxicology. He chairs the Committee on Toxicity and serves on the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants, the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg), Joint FAO and WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) (veterinary residues) and Joint FAO and WHO Expert Meeting on Pesticides Residues (JMPR). He has previously served on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, the Committee on Carcinogenicity, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain and the EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products.

He is a past chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) and is a member of the Board of Directors of ILSI Europe. Amongst his awards are: fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society; honorary membership and Merit Award of Eurotox; John Barnes Prize Lectureship and honorary fellowship of the British Toxicology Society; the Royal Society of Chemistry Toxicology Award and the Arnold J Lehman Award from the Society of Toxicology. He received an OBE in 2003 for his work on the risk assessment of pesticides.

Professor Boobis has been Chair of the COT since 2015.  has been Chair of the COT since 2015.