Phillip Baker

About Phillip Baker
Phillip is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, and a research associate at the Menzies Centre. His PhD explores how policy communities – the networks of individuals and organizations concerned with a health issue – push their issues, either successfully or unsuccessfully, on to the political agenda. His focus is on obesity, diet and physical activity policy at the World Health Organization and in Australia. In 2010, Phillip was an intern at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, where he worked on diet and physical activity policy and his PhD research.

Phillip has also published and presented on the use of social media and mobile phones in health communication, and the changing nature of advocacy organizations in response to these technologies. He is particularly interested in their potential future role in health advocacy and activism.

He is also a steering committee member of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, a global network of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers advocating for action on non-communicable diseases. He has recently represented the group at United Nations meetings and side-events in Melbourne, Geneva and New York. In this role he also chairs the Social Movement Working Group (www.ncdaction.org), established to mobilize a global community of young people to action on non-communicable diseases. The group’s website functions as a blog, video and information site, where facts are fused with the narratives of those affected by, and overcoming NCDs.

Selected publications
(Book chapter) Baker, P. (Under review) Doing health policy research: elite interviewing. In: Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon (Eds) Culture in Health Research: Local tales and global methodological lessons.
(Blog post) Baker, P. (2011) Summary: a Youth Forum for Action on NCDs. Available at: http://ncdaction.org/profiles/blogs/summary-a-youth-forum-foraction-on-ncds

(Blog post) Baker, P. (2011) NCDs: The Social Justice Movement of Our Generation. Finalist in the CSIS Global Health Policy Center blog competition: Do you think it's possible to create a unified social movement for NCDs, akin to the movements that already exist for individual chronic diseases? Available at: http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/blog/entry/ncds-the-social-justice-movement-...

(Report) Baker, P., Aitsi-Selmi, A., Siegel, K., Kishore, S., Tran, K., Grover, B., Hassell, C., Hassell, T., Johnson, S., Pace-Bass, L., Adams, H., Platon, I., Webber, S., Dossou, J.P., Hamley, P., Carah, N., Harris-Roxas, B. (2011) Advocating for Action on Non-communicable Diseases: Leveraging Technology and Social Media. A report by the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network / NCD Action Network and Healthy Caribbean Coalition. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

(Journal paper) Siegel, K., Kishore, S., Huffman, M., Aitsi-Selmi, A., Baker, P., Bitton, A., Mwatsama, M., Ding, E., Feigl, A., Khandelwal, S., Rapkin, N., Seligman, B., Vedanthan, R. (2011) Trans-Disciplinary Education and Training for NCD Prevention and Control, Global Heart, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 191-193.

(Journal paper) Kishore, S., Siegel, K., Ahmad, A., Aitsi-Selmi, A., Ali, M., Baker, P., Basu, S., Bitton, A., Bloomfield, G., Bukhman, G., Emery, E., Feigl, A., Grepin, K., Huffman, M., Kajana,K., Khandelwal, S., Kolappa, K., Liu, C., Lokhandwala, N., Marwah, V., Mwatsama, M., Novak, N., Nundy, S., Park, P., Parsons-Perez, C., Price, M., Rapkin, N., Rice, H., Seligman, B., Shah, S., da Silva, J., Sridhar, S., Stuckler, D., Vedanthan, R., Zaman, J. (2011) The Young Professionals’ Chronic Disease Network, Youth Manifesto on Non-Communicable Diseases, Global Heart, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 201-210.

(Book chapter) Ferguson, L., Baker, P., Love, D. (2010) Application of Nutrigenomics in Gastrointestinal Health. In: Debasis Bagchi and Francis C. Lau (Eds). Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Blackwell Publishing, USA, Pages: 83-94.

(Journal paper) Olsen, A., Dixon, J., Banwell, C., Baker, P. (2009) Weighing it up: the missing social inequalities dimension in Australian obesity policy discourse. Health Promot J Aust. Dec;20(3):167-71. PMID: 19951235.

(Journal paper) Friel, S., Baker, P. (2009) Equity, food security and health equity in the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. Sept;18(4):620-32. PMID: 19965356.

(Journal paper) Baker, P., Love, D., Ferguson, L. (2009) Role of gut microbiota in Crohn’s disease. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepato, Oct;3(5):535-546. PMID: 19817674.