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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide, ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.
From 2009-2021 she was a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.
She received an Officer of the Order of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog (AO) for her public health service. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog, the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Health Promotion Association.
She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.
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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog Press) and Governing for Health (2019 Oxford ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog 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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn 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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog post-COVID-19".
Fran is program director of the Stretton Health Equity.