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Professor Frances Baum

Awarded Federation Fellowship 2008

Project : Reducing health inequities and social exclusion: Improved theory, understanding and policies .

Current institution : Flinders University .

Host institution : Flinders University .

Primary research field : Public health and health services.

Professor Baum is Head of the Department for Public Health at Flinders University , Foundation Director of the South Australian Community Health Research Unit, and Program Leader of the Social Determinants of Health Program of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health.

She plans to develop a program to increase the theoretical understanding of the social and economic determinants of social exclusion and health inequities that will help inform and assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of public policies and interventions aiming to improve population health.

Professor Baum completed her PhD in sociology/social demography at University of Nottingham . Her appointments have included Commissioner of the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and National President and life member of the Public Health Association of Australia.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, the regional representative for the People's Health Movement in Australia and the Pacific, and a member of its Global Steering Committee.