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Health Sciences Research Program Professor Helen Keleher School of Primary Health Care Department of Health Science Peninsula campus HK – Pathways Sociology + politics + health = public health social science (+ rusty clinical knowledge) NGO activity: Past Vice-President (Policy) for Public Health Association of Australia Immediate past national convenor, Australian Women’s Health Network and 4th/ 5th Australian Women’s Health Conferences Activist for women’s health and gender equity – local, state and national policy, and women’s health services Recently appointed to WHO Social Determinants of Health Commission Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity Health Science staff All PhD qualified One group (all on short-term contracts) has strengths in health promotion, community and health development including international health development using social science methods – quant including epidemiology, and qualitative A second group (all tenured) has strengths in bioscience and lab research HK research program Causes of inequalities in health at local levels and strategies to increase equity Community-based health promotion Interventions Evidence-based, multi-level, intersectoral Workforce development Policy to reduce inequalities in health Gender equity Health promotion Theme 1: Inequities Relationships between macro-level determinants and their influence on local social and community factors Action requires a solid base of comprehensive local community data collected and analysed to understand the causation factors involved in inequalities Theme 2: Community-based health promotion Health promotion conceptualised across a continuum from downstream to upstream Theme 2: Community-based health promotion Health promotion conceptualised across a continuum from downstream to upstream Evidence is clear that health inequalities will only be overcome with a strong focus on upstream action/interventions Strong evidence that a focus on risk factors/behaviours without fo