Teaching Interests

• Research methods especially qualitative
• Social aspects of health
• Primary Health Care within Health Systems
• Political economy of health
• Location and Health Project, view website

Research Interests

• Director South Australian Community Health Research Unit
• Lead Investigator Australian Health Inequities Program
• Social and economic inequities and impact of health status
• Social capital and health
• Political economy of health especially impact of globalisation
• Evaluation of health promotion, especially healthy settings and healthy cities initiative
• Research funding and assessment processes

Forthcoming Events

• 2007 - upcoming event The People's Health Movement: our current campaigns and actions, view PDF

• Defend universality of Medicare
• Appropriate dog legislation
• Health Care Reform to build a strong Primary Health Care Sector
• Inequities and health

Key and Recent Publications

Books and Manuals

Fran Baum (2008) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, to be published in January

Haile Kahssa, Fran Baum, David Sanders (eds.) ( 2005) Civil Society and Health, Geneva : WHO

Paul Laris, Fran Baum, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Haile Kahssay (2003) Tapping into Civil Society: Guidelines for linking health systems with civil society, Adelaide : SACHRU (in conjunction with WHO)

Fran Baum (2002) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, (reprinted 2003, 2004, 2005 (x2), 2006 (2x) 607pp

Frances Baum (1998) The New Public Health: an Australian Perspective, Melbourne: Oxford University Press 586pp. (reprinted 5 times 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 )

Fran Baum (editor) (1995) Health for All: The South Australian Experience, Adelaide : Wakefield Press. 505pp

Frances Baum, Denise Fry and Ian Lennie (eds.) (1992) Community Health in Australia : Practice and Policy, Sydney : Pluto Press. 314pp

Frances Baum, Christine Gallus, Graham Brice, Richard Cooke and Michael Traynor (1991) Planning Healthy Communities - A Guide to Doing Community Needs Assessment . SACHRU, February, 1991. (reprinted 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002) 298pp

Haile Kahssay, Fran Baum, David Sanders (eds.) Civil Society and Health, Geneva: WHO, forthcoming, 2004

Paul Laris, Fran Baum, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Haile Kahssay (2003) Tapping into Civil Society: Guidelines for linking health systems with civil society, Adelaide: SACHRU (in conjunction with WHO)

Fran Baum (2002) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, (reprinted August, 2003)

Refereed Journal Articles

Fran Baum (2007) Cracking the nut of health equity: top down and bottom up pressure for action on the social determinants of health., International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, XIV, 2, 90-95.

Anna Ziersch Fran Baum Christine Putland Colin MacDougall (2006) Neighbourhood life, social capital and perceptions of safety in an Australian city, Australian Jr of Social Issues, under revision

Fran Baum , Colin MacDougall, Danielle Smith (2006) Glossary on Participatory Action Research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60: 854-857.

Fran Baum Helen Van Eyk and Catherine Hurley (2006) Tension, conflict and uncertainty: key features of reform processes from an Australian case study of health services Australian Journal of Primary Health, 12,2, 24-

Fran Baum , Gwyn Jolley, Richard Hicks, Kate Saint, Steve Parker (2006) What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives? - a review of the evidence from Noarlunga after 18 years, Health Promotion International , forthcoming

Fran Baum (2006) Commentary on the Alma Ata Declaration, Social Medicine , forthcoming.

Fran Baum, Sarah Simpson (2006) Building Healthy and Equitable Societies: what Australia can contribute to and learn from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health , Australian Journal of Health Promotion , 17, 3, 174-179

Lareen Newman, Fran Baum, Liz Harris (2006) Federal, state and territory government responses to health inequities and the social determinants of health in Australia, Australian Journal of Health Promotion , 17, 3, 217-225

David McCoy, Ravi Narayan, Fran Baum, David Sanders, Hani Serag, Jane Salvage, Mike Rowson, Ted Schrecker, David Woodward, Ron Labonte, Amit Sengupta, Arturo Qizphe, Claudio Schuftan (2006) A new Director General for the World Health Organisation - an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership, The Lancet , forthcoming

Jackie Street , Fran Baum, Ian Anderson (2006) How do we get research processes that reflect community priorities? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, under review

Anna M Ziersch, Fran Baum, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Anne M Kavanagh, Social capital and health in rural and urban communities in South Australia, Health and Place, under review

Catherine Palmer, Fran Baum, Anna Ziersch, Lisel O'Dwyer (2006) Place effects on health: Challenges and insights from an Australian multi-methodological project" Invited submission to Special Issue Placing Health in Context of Social Science & Medicine, under review

Catherine R. Chittleborough, Fran E. Baum , Anne W. Taylor, Janet E. Hiller (2006) A life course approach to measuring socioeconomic position in population health surveillance systems, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, forthcoming

Lisel O'Dwyer, Fran Baum, Anne Kavannagh, Colin MacDougall (2006) Do area based interventions to reduce health inequalities work? A systematic review of evidence. Critical Public Health Under review

What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives?--a review of the evidence from Noarlunga after 18 years Fran Baum, Gwyn Jolley, Richard Hicks, Kate Saint and Steve Parker view article, view appendix

David Sanders, Ronald Labonte, Fran Baum, Micky Chopra (2004) Making Research Matter : A Civil Society Perspective on Health Research, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, accepted

Catherine Hurley, Fran Baum, Helen Van Eyk (2004) Designing Better Health Care in the South: A case study of unsuccessful transformational change in public sector health service reform, Australian Journal of Public Administration, June, 63, 2, 31-41

Fran Baum (2004) Entry on World Health Organization in Martin Griffiths (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, London: Routledge

Fran Baum, David Sanders, Haile M. Kahssay, Paul Laris (2003) Local Civil Society Groups Play a Role in Health Promotion: Findings From An Australian and South African Study, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Under Review

Anna Ziersch, Fran Baum, Colin MacDougall, Christine Putland (2003) Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health, Submitted to Social Science and Medicine

Anna Ziersch and Fran Baum (2003) Involvement in civil society groups: is it good for your health? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, forthcoming

Fran Baum, Helen Van Eyk and Catherine Hurley (2003) Tension, conflict and uncertainty: key features of reform processes from an Australian case study of health services, submitted to Critical Public Health

Fran Baum (2003) Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived? Development in Practice forthcoming

Helen van Eyk and Fran Baum (2003) Evaluating health system change – Using focus groups and a developing discussion paper to compile the “voices from the field”, Qualitative Health Research, 13, 2, February, 281-286

Fran Baum and Anna Ziersch (2003) Social Capital Glossary, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, May, 57, 5, 320-323

Catherine Hurley, Helen van Eyk, Fran Baum (2002) Insider knowledge and outsider objectivity– the benefits and risks of combined evaluator roles in a study of health care reform, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 2, 2, 60-68

Fran Baum (2002) Health and greening the city: setting for health promotion: the importance of an evidence base, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56, 12, 897-8

Fran Baum and Helen Van Eyk (2002) Learning about interagency collaboration – trialing collaborative projects between hospitals and community health services, Health and Social Care in the Community, 10 (4) 262-269

Fran Baum and Helen Keleher (2002) Public Health Contribution for Medical Journal of Australia’s Update, January 7th

Fran Baum and Catherine Palmer (2002) Opportunity Structures; Urban landscape, social capital and health promotion, Health Promotion International, 17, 4, 351-361

Helen Van Eyk, Fran Baum and Graeme Houghton (2001) Coping with health care reform, Australian Health Review, 24, 2, 202-206

Helen Van Eyk, Fran Baum, John Blandford (2001) Evaluating Health Care Reform – the challenge of evaluating changing policy environments, Evaluation, 7, 4, 487-503

Fran Baum (2001) Health, equity, justice and globalisation: some lessons from the People’s Health Assembly, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55, 9, 613-616

Fran Baum (2001) Speaker’s Corner: Just imagine politicians working for health equity, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 290

Anne Johnson and Fran Baum (2001) Health Promoting Hospitals: the crucial importance of organisational change and development, Health Promotion International, 16, 3, 281-287

Book Chapters

Fran Baum and Angela Lawless (2006) Opposing the Motion that "Family Medicine should emphasise personal care" Stephen Buetow et al (eds.) Ideological Debates in Family Medicine

Fran Baum (2006) Social Capital and Indigenous Health. Chapter in Carson, B. Bailie R (Eds) Social Determinants of Indigenous Health, Melbourne : Allen & Unwin

Fran Baum (2006) Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice. Chapter in Jenny Douglas (Ed.) Promoting Public Health, Milton Keynes : Open University Press

Fran Baum (2005) Community health services in Australia , chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion, Melbourne : Oxford University Press 3rd Edition

Fran Baum (2003) The Effectiveness of Community-Based Health Promotion in Healthy Cities Programmes: issues of measurement and evaluation, Chapter in Takano, T (ed.) Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research, London : Spoon Press F

Fran Baum (2002) Community health services in Australia , chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion, Melbourne : Oxford University Press

Bush, Robert and Baum, Fran (2001) Health inequities, community and social capital, Chapter 13 in Eckersley, R. Dixon, J. Douglas R. (eds.) The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189-204

Fran Baum (2003) The Effectiveness of Community-Based Health Promotion in Healthy Cities Programmes: issues of measurement and evaluation, Chapter in Takano, T (ed.) Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research, London: Spoon Press

Fran Baum (2002) Community health services in Australia, chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion, Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Bush, Robert and Baum, Fran (2001) Health inequities, community and social capital, Chapter 13 in Eckersley, R. Dixon, J. Douglas R. (eds.) The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189-204.

Government, International Agencies and Research Reports

Jackie Street , Fran Baum, Ian Anderson Quality in Indigenous Research Grant Assessment, CRCAH, 2006

Andrew Beer, Fran Baum, Holli Thomas, Gwyn Jolley et al (2006) Report to the SA Department of Health on Stage 1 of the Study of a closure of a automotive plant, Flinders University.

Keynote, Plenary and Invited Addresses

Fran Baum (2006) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Keynote Address, Health Promotion Dreaming Shifting the Sands, 16th National Health Promotion Conference, 23-26 April, Alice Springs

Fran Baum (2006) Invited speaker panel on intersectoral action for women's health, Victoria Women's Network state wide conference, July.

Fran Baum (2006) Action on the Social Determinants of Health, Plenary Address, Annual Public Health Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, October.

Other Conference Papers

Baum, F Ziersch A, O'Dwyer, L Jolley, G Zhang, G Newman L (2006) Health Effects of job loss from an automotive plant, 3 rd Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health , Adelaide September 11-13 th .

Baum, F Ziersch, A. Palmer, C. Zhang, G. Putland, C. O'Dwyer, L. (2006) Effects of location on health, social capital and equity in Adelaide, 3 rd Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health , Adelaide September 11-13 th

Putland, C. Palmer, C. Baum, F. Ziersch, A. (2006) Lay conceptions of health inequities: informing policy and program responses in Australia . Paper presented at 37 th Annual Public Health Association of Australia , Sydney , October.

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