Professor Fran Baum: The role for health promotion in policy, power, and governance for health. by Aus Health Promotion Association

Professor Fran Baum: The role for health promotion in policy, power, and governance for health. by Aus Health Promotion Association

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Fran Baum is a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Director of the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University. She was named in the Queen’s Birthday 2016 Honours List as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ‘distinguished service to higher education as an academic and public health researcher, as an advocate for improved access to community health care, and to professional organisations’. In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship focusing on development of effective government and community responses to social determinants of health inequity and social exclusion. She holds several other national competitive grants investigating aspects of health inequity, and has an extensive teaching career in public health. Professor Baum’s numerous publications relate to social determinants of health, including Aboriginal people’s health, health inequities, primary health care, health promotion, Healthy Cities, and social capital. She is currently preparing ‘Governing for Health’ a book to be published by Oxford University Press, New York. The Australian Health Promotion Association would like to thank Professor Baum for her keynote presentation at the Health Promotion Symposium 2018: Better Practice, Better Placed.

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