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PhD (University of Queensland), BSC (University of Toronto)
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
Additional information
International engagement:
- 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)
- 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, 1–168. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/80012
- 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), 1–99. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82721
- 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), 1–13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/80014
- 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), 517–521. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74756
- 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), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63451
- Francis, D., Baker, P., Shipp, J., Wellings, S. & Priest, N. (2012). Assessment of applicability and transferability of evidence-based antenatal interventions to the Australian indigenous setting. Health Promotion International, 27(2), 208–219. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58057
- Baker, P., Sun, H., Morris, J. & Dines, A. (2011). Epidemiologic modeling with Flusurge for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, Queensland, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(9), 1608–1614. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48293
- 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), 345–349. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69829
- 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), 33–42. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52543
- 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), 448–450. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/55740