Role:
Director
Committee memberships:
Chair, Cancer Research Committee
Member, Nomination, Remuneration and Governance Committee
Professor Baum is the National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Fellow and Director, Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide.
Previously she was a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University. She also served as a Commissioner on the World Health Organisation’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health from 2005-08.
Professor Baum 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”.
She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia.
Professor Baum is also a Member of the Lancet Commission on Gender & Global health; the Lancet Commission on the Political Determinants of Health: Global Governance of Health in Time of Polycrisis; the Stretton Institute/School of Social Science, Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide; and the British Medical Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board. She is also a Commissioner of the Tsinghau-Lancet Commission on Health and Poverty Alleviation in China and a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Fellow.