Emeritus Professor Adrian Bauman AO

Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health, Director Prevention Research Collaboration

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Emeritus Professor Bauman AO is Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at The University of Sydney. Professor Bauman was a member of the Prevention Centre’s Leadership Executive (2013-2023) and Lead Investigator across a range of projects since the Centre was established in 2013. He has academic expertise in many aspects of the primary prevention of chronic disease, with an emphasis on physical activity and obesity prevention epidemiology, population-level interventions and policy research. He has a strong interest in research translation and in the evaluation of complex preventive health programs.

Adrian co-directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity, and has assisted in the development of national physical activity and NCD prevention policy, plans and surveillance systems in many countries.

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Infographic: Is Australia ready for a physical activity surveillance system?

Resource category: Visuals

Date 04 May 2023
What do we know about the laws that shape our built environments for walking and cycling in Australia?

Resource category: Visuals

Date 20 Jan 2023
What do systems approaches for physical activity look like?

Resource category: Visuals

Date 05 Oct 2022
Research seminar: Supporting systems approaches to accelerate progress on physical inactivity in Australia

Resource category: Videos

Date 16 Sep 2022
How can we advance systems approaches for physical activity in Australia?

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 06 Sep 2022
The Australian Systems Approaches to Physical Activity (ASAPa) final project report

Resource category: Reports

Date 30 Aug 2022
Building a systems map of the influences on physical activity

Resource category: Videos

Date 11 Aug 2022
Community perceptions of NCD prevention 2016 to 2018: An increasing appetite for government leadership?

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Date 12 May 2022
The Australian Systems Approaches to Physical Activity (ASAPa) project

Resource category: Videos

Date 28 Oct 2021
Implementation & Scale Up Academic Debate

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Date 20 Aug 2021
Implementing and scaling up public health programs

Resource category: Factsheets

Date 09 Aug 2021
Building surveillance systems for physical activity

Resource category: Videos

Date 23 Jul 2021
Creating systems change for physical activity

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Date 08 Jul 2021
The Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool

Resource category: Reports

Date 06 Oct 2019
Bringing research into the real world: the challenges of scaling up

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 24 Jun 2019
AUSPOPS 2018: Tasmanian report

Resource category: Reports

Date 06 Apr 2019
Tackling how to get Australians moving each and every day

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 04 Jun 2018
Scaling up interventions: What’s the evidence it will work?

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 16 Nov 2017
Mass media physical activity, nutrition and obesity campaigns in Australia

Resource category: Evidence Reviews

Date 14 Aug 2016
Australian Perceptions of Prevention Survey – Technical Report, July 2016

Resource category: Reports

Date 06 Jul 2016
Physical activity for public health: in pursuit of rigorous evaluation in the real world

Resource category: Videos

Date 17 Mar 2016

Emeritus Professor Adrian Bauman AO's projects

Creating liveable cities and healthy communities

Employing physical activity to prevent chronic disease

Implementation and scale up

Perceptions of prevention: What does the Australian community think?

A sense of scale: Exploring ways to implement effective prevention

Losing weight and keeping it off

Prevention Tracker: Learning locally to act nationally

Scaling up interventions: Making sure bigger is better

Scaling up public health interventions

Emeritus Professor Adrian Bauman AO's news and media

Rewarding year for Prevention Centre network in 2023

Celebrating 20 years of prevention collaborations

Do our laws help or hinder physical activity in our neighbourhoods?

The race to improve physical activity

September Chronicle newsletter

Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research

The missing steps to support walkability

World Day for Physical Activity is on April 6, so let’s get physical

NHMRC Ideas Grants for prevention researchers

Physical inactivity, the Cinderella of risk factors

Upholding human rights, defending multilateralism and promoting global solidarity: Reasons to support the WHO post-COVID-19

Working with policy makers is key to Getting Australia Active

Four projects take the Prevention Centre into its new phase

From scaling up to driverless cars – the Prevention Centre opens new frontiers in prevention

Is working in partnership worth it? A new tool to measure success

The secrets of successful partnership research

The evaluation conundrum: what to do when programs suddenly stop?

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Real-world public health interventions demonstrate how research evidence informs program scale-up

Are they the same? Disentangling the concepts of implementation science research and population scale-up

How long does it take to scale-up obesity prevention interventions?

Sustaining health obesity prevention programs: Lessons from real-world population settings

Disseminating health research to public health policy-makers and practitioners: a survey of source, message content and delivery modality preferences

Development and application of the Scale-Up Reflection Guide (SRG)

Are perceptions of government intervention related to support for prevention? An Australian survey study

Formative assessment: Is Australia ready for a physical activity surveillance system?

Team characteristics associated with weight loss in a First Nations community intervention: An observational study

Mapping and analysis of laws influencing built environments for walking and cycling in Australia

The built environment and population physical activity: Methods for mapping the relevant laws

Interventions designed to support physical activity and disease prevention for working from home: A scoping review

A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations

Systems approaches to physical activity: new tools and resources

Team characteristics associated with weight loss in a First Nations community intervention: An observational study

A call to action: More collaborative implementation research is needed to prevent chronic disease

Team members influence retention in a First Peoples’ community-based weight-loss program

Understanding the sustainment of population health programmes from a whole-of-system approach

An analysis of the legal framework influencing walking in Australia

Measuring public opinion and acceptability of prevention policies: an integrative review and narrative synthesis of methods

Changes in Australian community perceptions of non-communicable disease prevention: a greater role for government?

Many Papers but Limited Policy Impact? A Bibliometric Review of Physical Activity Research

Sydney’s ‘last drinks’ laws: A content analysis of news media coverage of views and arguments about a preventive health policy

Legal strategies to improve physical activity in populations

Physical activity surveillance in Australia: standardisation is overdue

Are perceptions of government intervention for prevention different by gender and age? Results from the AUStralian Perceptions Of Prevention Survey (AUSPOPS)

Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability – a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers

Using natural experiments to improve public health evidence: a review of context and utility for obesity prevention

Beyond weight loss: Impact of a weight management programme for mid-older Australians in private health insurance

Sociodemographic and health risk profile associated with participation in a private health insurance weight loss maintenance and chronic disease management program

Whole of Systems Approaches to Physical Activity Policy and Practice in Australia: The ASAPa Project Overview and Initial Systems Map

Generating Engagement on the Make Healthy Normal Campaign Facebook Page: Analysis of Facebook Analytics

Participant profile and impacts of an Aboriginal healthy lifestyle and weight loss challenge over four years 2012-2015

Applying pragmatic approaches to complex program evaluation: A case study of implementation of the New South Wales Get Healthy at Work program

Development of a tool for the evaluation of obesity prevention partnerships

Is this health campaign really social marketing? A checklist to help you decide

Nanny or canny? Community perceptions of government intervention for preventive health

Are Financial Incentives for Lifestyle Behavior Change Informed or Inspired by Behavioral Economics? A Mapping Review

Acceptability of financial incentives for maintenance of weight loss in mid-older adults: a mixed methods study

A Systematic Search and Review of Adult-Targeted Overweight and Obesity Prevention Mass Media Campaigns and Their Evaluation: 2000-2017

Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease

Pathways for scaling up public health interventions

A new model of collaborative research: experiences from one of Australia’s NHMRC Partnership Centres for Better Health

Comprehensive sector-wide strategies to prevent and control obesity: what are the potential health and broader societal benefits? A case study from Australia

Assessing the usefulness of systematic reviews for policymakers in public health: A case study of overweight and obesity prevention interventions

Reconnecting urban planning with health: a protocol for the development and validation of national liveability indicators associated with noncommunicable disease risk behaviours and health outcomes