Professor Fran Baum AO
Professor Fran Baum AO is a public health social scientist with a special interest in creating healthy, equitable and sustainable societies. She is a professor of health equity, The Stretton Institute, The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
From 2009-2021 she was a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
She received an Officer of the Order of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ (AO) for her public health service. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Health Promotion Association.
She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
She is co-Chair of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (). She is the author of The New Public Health (2016, Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press) and Governing for Health (2019 Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press). Fran is an activist academic who advocates for a fairer, more sustainable and healthy world.
She has held multiple grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council and the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council which are considering health inequities and public policy, social determinants of health and Health in All Policies.  She holds an NHMRC Investigator Grant 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 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ post-COVID-19".
Fran is program director of the Stretton Health Equity.