Fran Baum

Biographic Data

ID3697496
NAMEFran Baum
GIVEN NAMESFran
FAMILY NAMEBaum
SIGNATUREBAUM F
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Adelaide
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS135
WORKS AS AUTHOR50
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Non-governmental organisations and the regulation of harmful commodity industries

    Open AccessKathrin Lauber, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    Background The crucial role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in advancing effective regulation of health-harming corporate practices is widely accepted, yet how precisely they shape global health governance is not well-understood. While a vast literature has grappled with corporate power and its political, market, and technological dimensions, less attention has been paid to strategic efforts to counter the influence of corporate actors. …

  • Logics of (dis)engagement

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    A central question in contemporary health governance is how to prevent undue corporate influence. There is limited practical guidance beyond the tobacco control model. Global partnership approaches have continued to promote alcohol and ultra-processed food (UPF) industry engagement, and these industries have influenced policy and governance in ways that benefit their interests, often to the detriment of strong health regulation. In Australia indu…

  • Health promotion and the need to accelerate advocacy for health equity

    Open AccessJoanne Flavel, Toby Freeman et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    It has been 15 years since the final report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH)—‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ (CSDH, 2008)—was published. While there have been gains in overall health since then, improvements in health have not been equitably distributed and there is evidence of increasing inequities within OECD countries (Hu et al., 2016; Mackenbach et al., 2018). Reports from Oxfam and the World Inequality Lab have…

  • Ghosts in the labour market

    Open AccessMiriam van den Berg, H Krainer et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Employment conditions are important social and commercial determinants of health. Informal employment—also known as ‘cash-in-hand’ and ‘undeclared’ work—is a discrete employment condition that has salience around the world. Fuelled by neoliberal ideology, informal employment has become increasingly common in high-income countries. Public health research concerning the health of informal workers comes largely from low- and middle-income countries,…

  • Improving Population Health and Health Equity

    Michael Mcgreevy, Connie Musolino et al.ARTICLEUrban Policy and Research2024

    This research examines the potential of transitioning public “green spaces” to optimise health benefiting urban ecological services in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The research found strengths but also significant weaknesses. The major weaknesses observed were poor quality amenities and facilities within open spaces, low landscape complexity, poor maintenance and inadequate integration with the built form and pedestrian networks of the…

  • Privatisation of government services in Australia

    Open AccessJulia Anaf, Toby Freeman et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Historically in Australia, all levels of government created collective wealth by owning and operating infrastructure, and managing natural assets, key public goods and essential services while being answerable to the public. This strong state tradition was challenged in the 1980s when privatisation became a widespread government approach globally. Privatisation involves displacing the public sector through modes of financing, ownershi…

  • Health and equity impacts of global consultancy firms

    Open AccessJulia Anaf, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Concern is growing over the power, influence, and threats to health and equity from the operations of large global consultancy firms. Collectively, these firms support a neoliberal policy environment promoting business interests ahead of public health. Global consultancy firms act as commercial determinants of health, an evolving area of research over recent years. However, this research mainly focuses on specific corporations or indu…

  • NGOs and Global Business Regulation of Transnational Alcohol and Ultra-Processed Food Industries

    Open AccessR Ralston, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEPolicy and Society2024References: 33

    The intensification of efforts by state and nonstate actors to address issues affecting global health has produced a patchwork of transnational regulatory governance. Within this field, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are expected to perform authoritative roles in holding business actors to account and enhance the democratic legitimacy of institutions via their participation in governance processes. While there exists a large body of concept…

  • Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2023

    Previous research on commercial determinants of health has primarily focused on their impact on non-communicable diseases. However, they also impact on infectious diseases and on the broader preconditions for health. We describe, through case studies in 16 countries, how commercial determinants of health were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they may have influenced national responses and health outcomes. We use a comparative qualita…

  • A framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Timothy D Johnson et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2023

  • Counting homelessness

    Open AccessJoanne Flavel, Lisa Wood et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2023Cited by: 3References: 32

    Analyses of the prevalence of homelessness suggest homelessness is increasing in Australia and other countries. Yet, difficulties exist in obtaining an accurate picture of homelessness due to a dearth of robust data and inconsistent definitions. This study aimed to build a comprehensive descriptive profile of homelessness and associated health needs in Adelaide. Five data sources were analysed and compared to produce descriptive sociodemographic …

  • To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity

    Open AccessHelen Van Eyk, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2023References: 33

    Early childhood education (ECE) and development is internationally recognised as important to child health and wellbeing and to enabling children to become healthy productive adults. This paper analyses Australian ECE policy current in 2019. It uses the institutional framework of ideas, actors and institutions to determine the extent to which ECE policy recognises and acts on social determinants of health and health equity. We found that the poli…

  • Planetary health benefits from strengthening health workforce education on the social determinants of health

    Open AccessNicole Valentine, Onyema Kester Ajuebor et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2022

    Social inequalities are perpetuating unhealthy living and working conditions and behaviours. These causes are commonly called ‘the social determinants of health’. Social inequalities are also impacting climate change and vice-versa, which, is causing profound negative impacts on planetary health. Achieving greater sustainability for human and planetary health demands that the health sector assumes a greater leadership role in addressing social in…

  • Reviving health promotion in South Australia

    Open AccessConnie Musolino, Helen Van Eyk et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2022

    Globally health promotion has remained marginalized while biomedical health systems have maintained and even increased their dominance. During 2019–2021 we drew on the local and historical knowledge of actors from multiple sectors through semi-structured interviews and focus groups, to assess the implications of the withdrawal of the state from health promotion in a suburban region of South Australia. Institutional theory enabled in-depth analysi…

  • Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2022

    The 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) targeted Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory in Australia. The NTER imposed draconian measures unfavourable to health, contributing to health inequities. There is little research investigating why the NTER was framed so negatively, and how this framing passed into legislation so unassailably. We used institutional theory to understand what factors contributed to the NTER agenda fr…

  • Assessing the health impacts of transnational corporations

    Open AccessJulia Anaf, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    BACKGROUND: The practices of transnational corporations (TNCs) affect population health through unhealthy products, shaping social determinants of health, or influencing the regulatory structures governing their activities. There has been limited research on community exposures to TNC policies and practices. The aim of this paper was to adapt existing Health Impact Assessment methods that were previously used for both a fast food and an extractiv…

  • Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2022

    The 2007 Australian Northern Territory Emergency Response policy was harmful to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thematically analysed 72 speech acts and reports from the three prominent perspectives: a Northern Territory government inquiry report, the Federal government, and an Aboriginal civil society coalition to examine how framings during the policy agenda setting phase constrained or supported scope for equitab…

  • Challenges facing primary health care in federated government systems

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2021

  • Applying Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Frameworks to the Problem of High Incarceration Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations

    Open AccessBattam, Samantha Battams et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2021

    This article examines what kinds of policy reforms are required to reduce incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a case study of policy in the Australian state of Victoria. This state provides a good example of a jurisdiction with policies focused upon, and developed in partnership with, Aboriginal communities in Victoria, but which despite this has steadily increasing incarceration rates of Indigenous people.…

  • Power and the people's health

    Open AccessSharon Friel, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 22References: 53

  • How can multiple frames enable action on social determinants? Lessons from Australia’s paid parental leave

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2020

    How do public health advocates and practitioners encourage policy actors to address the social determinants of health? What strategies can be used to elevate healthy social policies onto government agendas? In this paper, we examine the case of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, announced in 2009 after decades of policy advocacy. This scheme provides job-protected leave and government-funded pay at the minimum wage for 18 week…

  • Implementing policy on next-generation broadband networks and implications for equity of access to high speed broadband

    Open AccessMatthew Fisher, Toby Freeman et al.ARTICLETelecommunications Policy2020

  • How well do Australian government urban planning policies respond to the social determinants of health and health equity

    Open AccessMichael Mcgreevy, Patrick Harris et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Cited by: 4References: 67

  • Bringing in critical frameworks to investigate agenda-setting for the social determinants of health

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 2References: 21

  • Understanding Australian policies on public health using social and political science theories

    Open AccessFranziska Baum, Fran Baum et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2019

    There is strong, and growing, evidence documenting health inequities across the world. However, most governments do not prioritize policies to encourage action on the social determinants of health and health equity. Furthermore, despite evidence concerning the benefits of joined-up, intersectoral policy to promote health and health equity, it is rare for such policy approaches to be applied systematically. To examine the usefulness of political a…