Professor Philip Baker
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Extensive experience in Epidemiology in Public Health, University and Hospital settings Areas of expertise:- Evidence based practice and clinical epidemiology including systematic reviews and knowledge translation with public health decision makers
- Public health epidemiological services including health surveillance of communicable and chronic diseases
- Health technology assessment / health economics
- Indigenous health and health inequalities
- Workforce training and development in Epidemiology skills
- Quality improvement and clinical audit
- Quality of life and health outcomes measurement
- Biostatistics and multi-national clinical trials
- Chronic disease prevention including physical activity
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Systematic reviews and systematic overviews of public health interventions
- Journal editor
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
physical activity, chronic disease prevention, systematic reviews, evidence informed practice and policy, teaching and learning, epidemiology, smoking prevention, systematic overviews, community wide interventions, Cochrane Collaboration
Research field
Other Medical and Health Sciences, Library and Information Studies, Other Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- BSC (University of Toronto)
Professional memberships and associations
Australasian Epidemiological Association
Sports Medicine Australia
Cochrane Collaboration - Cochrane Public Health Group
Teaching
- HLN710 Epidemiology (post graduate) Semesters 1 & 2
- PUN103 Advanced Epidemiology Semester 2
- In class simulation of randomised clinical trials
- Implementation of audience response technology with both wireless 'clickers' and web-based technology (e.g. GoSoapBox).
- Teaching epidemiology into other units and disciplines such as nursing and optometry.
- Experienced in workforce development
- Postgraduate higher research degree supervision
- Mentoring earlier career academics
Awards:
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award 2013 for innovations in teaching
- QUT Teaching and Learning Grant 2014 - 2015
- Career Mentor Nominee 2013
Experience
- Visiting Professor University of Malaya
- Collaborative research undertaking Cochrane Systematic reviews
- Collaborator with the USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Public health decision makers through knowledge translation workshops utlising audience response technology
- Providing workshops and workforce training on evidence based practice and systematic review methodology (e.g. UK, Malaysia and Canada)
Selected publications
- Baker P, Francis D, Soares J, Weightman A, Foster C, (2015) Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity [Intervention Review], Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, pp. 1-168.
- Thomas R, Baker P, Thomas B, Lorenzetti D, (2015) Family-based programmes for preventing smoking by children and adolescents (Intervention Review), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 (2), pp. 1-99.
- Baker P, Dobbins M, Soares J, Francis D, Weightman A, Costello J, (2015) Public health interventions for increasing physical activity in children, adolescents and adults: an overview of systematic reviews [Protocol], Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 (1), pp. 1-13.
- Baker P, Costello J, Dobbins M, Waters E, (2014) The benefits and challenges of conducting an overview of systematic reviews in public health: a focus on physical activity, Journal of Public Health (Oxford), 36 (3), pp. 517-521.
- Costello J, Baker P, Minett G, Bieuzen F, Stewart I, Bleakley C, (2013) Whole-body cryotherapy (extreme cold air exposure) for preventing and treating muscle soreness after exercise in adults [Intervention Protocol], Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013 (10), pp. 1-12.
- Baker P, Shipp J, Wellings S, Priest N, Francis D, (2012) Assessment of applicability and transferability of evidence-based antenatal interventions to the Australian indigenous setting, Health Promotion International, 27 (2), pp. 208-219.
- Morris J, Dines A, Baker P, Sun H, (2011) Epidemiologic modeling with Flusurge for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, Queensland, Australia, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17 (9), pp. 1608-1614.
- Jones K, Baker P, Doyle J, Armstrong R, Pettman T, Waters E, (2013) Increasing the utility of systematic reviews findings through strategic communication, Journal of Public Health (Oxford), 35 (2), pp. 345-349.
- Anderson L, Petticrew M, Rehfuess E, Armstrong R, Ueffing E, Baker P, Francis D, Tugwell P, (2011) Using logic models to capture complexity in systematic reviews, Research Synthesis Methods, 2 (1), pp. 33-42.
- Baker P, Francis D, Hall B, Doyle J, Armstrong R, (2010) Managing the production of a Cochrane systematic review, Journal of Public Health (Oxford), 32 (3), pp. 448-450.
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