Connie Musolino

Research Interests

Gender Studies Health Policy Health Promotion Public Health Public Policy Social Sciences Methods Social Theory

Dr Connie Musolino

NHMRC Grant-Funded Research Fellow

School of Public Health

College of Health

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Connie Musolino is a Research Fellow at Stretton Health Equity in the Stretton Institute. She is an early career researcher with expertise in social science, gender studies and public health. Connie completed a PhD in Social Science with a focus on young women with eating disorders and examined the gendered and socio-cultural factors of their experiences to understand why they were reluctant to seek therapeutic help. Connie previously worked at the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University from 2017-2022 as a Research Fellow and Project Manager. Connie is currently a Research Fellow on Prof Fran Baum's NHMRC Investigator Fellowship entitled "Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in Australia post-COVID-19". She is working across a range of projects examining health inequities, the social determinants of health, gender and health, health promotion and community health services, and civil society and social movements.Connie has experience in a wide range of research methods including semi-structured interviewing, focus groups, community consultation, observations, diary writing, world cafe and surveying. She is also experienced in project managing complex and interdisciplinary teams, including organising project advisory committee's, and community and policy engagement to enhance evidence translation.Stretton Health Equity https://www.adelaide.edu.au/stretton/our-research/stretton-health-equity

Date Position Institution name
2022 - ongoing NHMRC Grant-Funded Researcher Fellow Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute
2017 - 2022 Research Fellow Flinders University
2017 - 2017 Tutor Flinders University
2016 - 2016 Tutor University of Adelaide
2016 - 2016 Research Assistant Central Queensland University
2016 - 2016 Research Assistant South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS)

Date Institution name Country Title
2012 - 2016 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours)
University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Development Studies

Year Citation
2026 van Eyk, H., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Fry, D., McDougall, C., McBride, T., . . . Baum, F. (2026). Australian Community Health and Primary Health Care Policies from 1970s to 2020s: A Policy Analysis of Changing Interpretations. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 1-14.
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2026 Baum, F., Litherland-De Lara, J., Anaf, J., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., & van den Berg, M. (2026). Marxist concepts of alienation in relation to health: a narrative review of the evidence. Health Promotion International, 41(1), daag017-1-daag017-11.
DOI Scopus1
2026 Baum, F., Fry, D., Musolino, C., Freeman, T., Lewis, V., Macmillan, J., & MacDougall, C. (2026). Medicare Without a Strong Community Health Sector Is a Loss to the Australian Health System. Journal of Australian Studies, 50(1), 7-30.
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2025 Musolino, C., Baum, F., Flavel, J., Freeman, T., McKee, M., Chi, C., . . . Villar, E. (2025). Caring During COVID-19: A Study of Intersectionality and Inequities in the Care Economy in 16 Countries. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 55(1), 16-32.
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2025 Baum, F., Anaf, J., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., van den Berg, M., Friel, S., & Schram, A. (2025). Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 79(7), 481-483.
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2025 Mackean, T., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Fry, D., MacDougall, C., Lewis, V., & Baum, F. (2025). Leading the way: the contribution of Aboriginal community controlled health organisations to community health in Australia. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(3), PY24223-1-PY24223-10.
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2025 Baum, F., Anaf, J., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Friel, S., Schram, A., & van den Berg, M. (2025). Alienation and its relevance to public health: response to commentaries by Muntaner et al and Dawson. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 79(7), 479-480.
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2025 Gesesew, H., Kebede, H. K., Baum, F., Ward, P., & Musolino, C. (2025). Civil society and perilous medicine in Africa: A systematic review. BMJ Global Health, 10(6), 8 pages.
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2025 Baum, F., Musolino, C., Freeman, T., Fry, D., Laris, P., Lewis, V., . . . McBride, T. (2025). Social movements and the Whitlam-initiated community health movement in Australia. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(5), 13 pages.
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2024 McGreevy, M., Musolino, C., & Baum, F. (2024). Improving Population Health and Health Equity: The Potential of Transitioning Public Open Spaces to Optimise the Production of Urban Ecological Services in Adelaide, South Australia. Urban Policy and Research, 42(2), 160-183.
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2024 Flavel, J., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., & Baum, F. (2024). Health promotion and the need to accelerate advocacy for health equity. Health Promotion International, 39(3), daae040-1-daae040-4.
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2024 Musolino, C., Freeman, T., Flavel, J., & Baum, F. (2024). Non-government advocacy for health equity: evidence from Australia. Health Promotion International, 39(6), daae148-1-daae148-12.
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2024 Baum, F., Musolino, C., Freeman, T., Flavel, J., Ceukelaire, W. D., Chi, C., . . . Villar, E. (2024). Thinking politically about intersectoral action: Ideas, Interests and Institutions shaping political dimensions of governing during COVID-19. Health policy and planning, 39(S2), i75-i92.
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2023 Foley, K., Dean, N., Musolino, C., Long, R., & Ward, P. (2023). Modifying my self: A qualitative study exploring agency, structure and identity for women seeking publicly funded plastic surgery in Australia. Journal of Sociology, 59(3), 772-791.
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2023 McGreevy, M., Musolino, C., & Baum, F. (2023). Will neighbourhood liveability be promoted by new housing related planning policy in Adelaide, South Australia?. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(2), 699-726.
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2023 McGreevy, M., Musolino, C., & Baum, F. (2023). Liveability transitioning: results of a pilot study of walking, accessibility, and social connection strengths weaknesses in established suburbs in Adelaide. Cities and Health, 7(3), 433-462.
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2023 Lunnay, B., Seymour, J., Foley, K., Musolino, C., & Ward, P. R. (2023). Through the wine glass: How biographical midlife transitions and women's affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption.. International Journal of Drug Policy, 117, 1-9.
DOI Scopus28 WoS27 Europe PMC16
2023 Freeman, T., Baum, F., Musolino, C., Flavel, J., McKee, M., Chi, C., . . . Villar, E. (2023). Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global COVID-19 pandemic: Thematic analysis of 16 country case studies. Health Policy, 134, 104860-1-104860-11.
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2023 McLean, C., Musolino, C., Rose, A., & Ward, P. R. (2023). The management of cognitive labour in same-gender couples. PLoS ONE, 18(7, article no. e0287585), e0287585.
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2022 Roesler, A., Musolino, C., Eyk, H., Flavel, J., Freeman, T., Fisher, M., . . . Baum, F. (2022). Conducting a rapid health promotion audit in suburban Adelaide, South Australia: Can it contribute to revitalising health promotion?. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 33(2), 488-498.
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2022 Flavel, J., McKee, M., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Van Eyk, H., Tesfay, F. H., & Baum, F. (2022). The need for improved Australian data on social determinants of health inequities. Medical Journal of Australia, 216(8), 388-391.
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2022 Baum, F., Paremoer, L., Flavel, J., Musolino, C., & Labonte, R. (2022). Can the world become a place where the planet and all people flourish after the pandemic?. BMJ, 377, e067872-1-e067872-5.
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2022 Flavel, J., McKee, M., Tesfay, F. H., Musolino, C., Freeman, T., van Eyk, H., & Baum, F. (2022). Explaining health inequalities in Australia: the contribution of income, wealth and employment. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 28(6), 474-481.
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2022 Freeman, T., Townsend, B., Mackean, T., Musolino, C., Friel, S., & Baum, F. (2022). Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity: Lessons from a failed Australian public policy. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100117-1-100117-10.
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2022 Flavel, J., Musolino, C., & Freeman, T. (2022). The need for improved Australian data on social determinants of health inequities. Medical Journal of Australia, 217(6), 325.
DOI Europe PMC2
2022 Musolino, C., van Eyk, H., Freeman, T., Fisher, M., MacDougall, C., Williams, C., & Baum, F. (2022). Reviving health promotion in South Australia: The role of ideas, actors and institutional forces. Health Promotion International, 37(6), 1-12.
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2022 Freeman, T., Townsend, B., Mackean, T., Musolino, C., Friel, S., McDermott, D., & Baum, F. (2022). Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity? Examining Australia’s Northern Territory Emergency Response. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(2), 1-21.
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2021 Baum, F., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Abramovitz, M., De Ceukelaire, W., Flavel, J., . . . Villar, E. (2021). Explaining covid-19 performance: What factors might predict national responses?. BMJ, 372, 4 pages.
DOI Scopus96 WoS75 Europe PMC54
2021 McGreevy, M., Musolino, C., Udell, T., & Baum, F. (2021). The Feasibility of Transitioning Low-density Suburbs into Healthy Walkable Neighbourhoods: The Case of Adelaide, South Australia. Urban Policy and Research, 39(4), 377-396.
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2021 Baum, F., Musolino, C., Gesesew, H. A., & Popay, J. (2021). New perspective on why women live longer than men: An exploration of power, gender, social determinants, and capitals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 1-23.
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2020 Musolino, C., Warin, M., & Gilchrist, P. (2020). Embodiment as a paradigm for understanding and treating SE-AN: Locating the self in culture. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 534-1-534-11.
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2020 Musolino, C., Baum, F., Freeman, T., Labonté, R., Bodini, C., & Sanders, D. (2020). Global health activists' lessons on building social movements for Health for All. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 14 pages.
DOI Scopus32 WoS26 Europe PMC16
2020 Freeman, T., Gesesew, H. A., Bambra, C., Giugliani, E. R. J., Popay, J., Sanders, D., . . . Baum, F. (2020). Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 19 pages.
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2020 Mateos, J. T., Fernandez-Saez, J., Marcos-Marcos, J., alvarez-Dardet, C., Bambra, C., Popay, J., . . . Baum, F. (2020). Gender Equality and the Global Gender Gap in Life Expectancy: An Exploratory Analysis of 152 Countries. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, 11(6), 740-746.
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2020 Van Eyk, H., Friel, S., Sainsbury, P., Boyd-Caine, T., Harris, P., MacDougall, C., . . . Baum, F. (2020). How do advisory groups contribute to healthy public policy research?. International Journal of Public Health, 65(9), 1581-1591.
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2020 Musolino, C. M., Baum, F., Freeman, T., Labonté, R., Bodini, C., & Sanders, D. (2020). Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All.
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2018 Musolino, C., Warin, M., & Gilchrist, P. (2018). Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(4), 534-550.
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2018 Baum, F., Popay, J., Delany-Crowe, T., Freeman, T., Musolino, C., Alvarez-Dardet, C., . . . Sanders, D. (2018). Punching above their weight: A network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy. International Journal for Equity in Health, 17(1), 5 pages.
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2016 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2016). Developing shared understandings of recovery and care: A qualitative study of women with eating disorders who resist therapeutic care. Journal of Eating Disorders, 4(1), 1-10.
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2015 Musolino, C., Warin, M. J., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2015). ‘Healthy anorexia’: The complexity of care in disordered eating. Social Science & Medicine, 139, 18-25.
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2015 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2015). Disordered eating and choice in postfeminist spaces. Outskirts, 33, 1-20.
2015 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2015). Orthorexia and deprivation as ‘care’: how people with disordered eating understand care. Journal of eating disorders, 3(Suppl 1), O31.
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2013 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2013). "Healthy Anorexia": rationalising contradictions. Journal of eating disorders, 1(Suppl 1), O67.
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Year Citation
2025 Anderson, W., Dunk, J., & Musolino, C. (2025). Settler Colonial Social Medicine and Community Health: Australasian Adaptations, Reinventions, and Denials. In Medicine on A Larger Scale Global Histories of Social Medicine (pp. 237-256). Cambridge University Press.
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Year Citation
2020 Musolino, C., Baum, F., Womersley, R., Van Eyk, H., Freeman, T., Flavel, J., & Earl, C. (2020). SA: The Heaps Unfair State: Why have Health Inequities Increased in South Australia and how can this be Reversed?.
2019 Flavel, J., Baum, F., Musolino, C., Freeman, T., & van Eyk, H. (2019). SA: The Heaps Unfair State: The Statistical Report..

Year Citation
- Musolino, C., Schram, A., Baum, F., & Zirnsak, M. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on privilege | July 2026.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Fisher, I., Porcelli, A., & Andrews, K. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on local area strategies for improving wellbeing health and equity | May 2026.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Anderson, D., Sahlberg, P., & Falkenberg, A. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on Education Equity | May 2025.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Susi, T., Crowe, C., Nguyen, T., & Baalman, M. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on Federal Election priorities for health and social equity | March 2025.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Schram, A., & Hamilton, C. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on privilege and social media and health inequities | August 2025.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Ansari, D., Creamer, S., & O'Connor, B. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on gender and health equity advocacy | December 2025.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Murray, C., Teusner, D., & Jones, K. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on a public health approach to the reform of South Australia's Child and Family Support System | May 2024.
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- Baum, F., Musolino, C., Baker, E., Clair, A., & Barrett, B. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on housing as a social determinant of health | August 2024.
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Musolino, C. (Chief Investigator) The University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics Research Establishment Grants, 'A pilot study on the role of community advocacy in government decision making about Covid-19 and the impacts on women’s health' 2022, $5000

Warin, M., Barclay, K, Moore, V., Musolino, C., Peralta, A., Rogers, D., Torresi, T. (2022), The University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics Research grant, 'Feminist Mentoring for the Contemporary University' $10,000

F Baum, J Popay, R Labonte, M Kidd, T Freeman, H Gesewe, M Fisher, S Friel, E Miller, C Musolino. World Bank funded grant “Do Punching Above Weight Countries respond better to pandemic?”, (2020-2021).Funding US$50,000

Freeman, T., Baum, F,. Musolino, C. Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant, What are good practice examples from countries in the Western Pacific region that ‘punch above their weight’ for life expectancy relative to national income?’  (2020-2021), $24968

Flavel, F. Baum, F., Freeman, T, Musolino, C. Flinders Foundation grant 'Examining increasing health inequities in Australia: the contribution of employment, income and wealth' 2019-2020, $25,000

Baum, F., Delany-Crowe, T., van Eyk, H., Williams, C., Freeman, T., MacDougall, C., Fisher, M., Musolino, C., McGreevy, M., Barredo, M., Phillips, P., & Craig, J. (2018). Healthy South: Testing the feasibility of the rapid translation of Health in All Policies (HiAP) ideas to create healthy urban environments, create health promoting health services and stem the non-communicable disease epidemic in the Southern area of Adelaide. SA Academic Health Science and Translation Centre Rapid Applied Research Translation for Health Impact Grant, $199,863.

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