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Professor Gabriele Bammer BSc BA (Flin), PhD (Syd) Current Position: Professor, NCEPH and Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 0716 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au

 

Research Interests

• Integration and Implementation Sciences – Developing a new discipline.
  
  Tackling complex problems needs improved theory and methods for:

  1. the synthesis of a range of knowledge, information and perspectives to improve understanding of an issue or problem;
  2. using research knowledge to support decision makers in various domains, including public policy, business, professional practice and community activism; and
  3. using research knowledge to underpin the implementation of decisions in effective social change.

  This new theory and methods is being developed in a range of research programs and projects, including

  • The Drug Policy Modelling Program ( www.dpmp.unsw.edu.au/ )
  • The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
  • Global Environmental Change and Food Security ( www.gecafs.org )
  • Improving understanding of psychostimulant-related harms in Australia : An integrated ethno-epidemiological approach

  For more information see www.anu.edu.au/iisn

• Improving treatment for illicit drugs, with particular interest in treatment using short-acting opioids, such as diamorphine (prescription heroin). An extensive program of research on diamorphine prescription was conducted from 1991-1997. See http://www.nceph.anu.edu.au/Publications/opioids_papers.php
  
  
• Occupational Health, especially work-related neck and upper limb disorders. The main activity here is a 20 year follow-up study of ANU employees from 1980-84.

Selected Recent Publications

Bammer G, Smithson M. (eds) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, London: Earthscan, 2008; 382pp.
Public Lecture and Uncertainty and Risk book launch - Monthly Magazine SlowTV link
Audio podcast

National Cancer Institute. 2007 Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 06-6085, April. http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/18/index.html

Ritter A, Bammer G, Hamilton M, Mazerolle L, and The DPMP Team. Effective drug policy: a new approach demonstrated in the Drug Policy Modelling Program. Drug and Alcohol Review, 2007; 26: 265-271.

Kueffer C, Hirsch Hadorn G, Bammer G, van Kerkhoff L, Pohl C. Towards a publication culture in transdisciplinary research. GAIA, 2007; 16: 22-26.

Bammer G. Scoping public health problems. In Pencheon D, Guest C, Melzer D, Gray JAM. (eds) Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice, Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2006: 4-11.

Bammer G. Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization. Ecology and Society 2005; 10 (2): 6. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art6/