Fram Baum

Professor Fran Baum AO is a public health social scientist with a special interest in creating and advocating for healthy, equitable and sustainable societies. She is Director of Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide. From 2009-2021 she was a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University. She received an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her public health service. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia. She is the immediate past co-Chair of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www.phmovement.org) and a member of the PHM Advisory Council. She is the author of The New Public Health (2016, Oxford University Press) and Governing for Health (2019 Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (2021).

She has held multiple grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council and the Australia Research Council which are considering health inequities and public policy, social determinants of health and Health in All Policies. She holds an NHMRC Investigator Fellowship (Leadership Level 3). which provides $2.24m for a research program entitled “Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in Australia post-COVID-19”.

I have the following interests to declare:

Director, Board of Management Cancer Council of South Australia (Cancer Council SA - Cancer information and support (cancersa.org.au))
Director, Board Australia 21 (Home | Australia21 | Think Tank for the Public Good)
Member, People’s Health Movement Advisory Council
Member, International Organising Committee, Prince Mahidol Awards Conference
Commissioner, Lancet Commission on Gender & Global Health
Commissioner, Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Health and Poverty Alleviation in China
Fellow, Australian Academy of Social Science
Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science
Fellow, Australian Health Promotion Association
Life Member, Public Health Association of Australia
Member, Australian Energy Transition Research Plan Steering Committee, Australian Council of Learned Academies

I hold the following National Health and Medical Research Council research grants:

1. Investigator Fellowship GNT 2009323 (2022-26)
2. Chief Investigator A: Project Grant GNT 1139348 (2016-2024)
3. Chief Investigator B Project Grant GNT2019247 (2016-23)
4. Chief Investigator H: Synergy Grant GNT 2019247 (2023-27)

I hold the following grants from the Australian Research Council:

1. Chief Investigator A: Special Research Initiatives SR200200920 (2021-23)
2. Chief Investigator A: Discovery grant DP230102151 (2023-25)
3. Chief Investigator c: Linkage Grant LP200100100 (2021-23)