Julia Anaf

Research Interests

Health Promotion Public Health Sociology Health equity Political economy and social change

Dr Julia Anaf

NHMRC Grant-Funded Research Fellow

School of Public Health

College of Health

My main research interests are the social, political and commercial determinants of health and health equity. I am currently employed (part-time) on Professor Fran Baum's NHMRC Investigator Grant 'Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities post Covid-19?' I lead the the privatisation theme which investigates the health impacts from privatisation and outsourcing; undertaking related case studies on global consultancy firms, employment services and the education sector. 

Date Position Institution name
2022 - ongoing Research Fellow Adelaide University
2011 - 2021 Research Fellow Flinders University of South Australia
2006 - 2007 Tutor Flinders University
2005 - 2006 Research Associate Flinders University
2004 - 2004 Tutor University of South Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Award School of Social Sciences Mid-Career Research Excellence Award University of Adelaide Australia -
2025 Award Special Commendation University of Adelaide Australia $1000

Date Institution name Country Title
2008 - 2011 Flinders University of South Australia Australia PhD
Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management South Australia Master of Public Policy
The University of Adelaide South Australia Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Flinders University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Social Work

Year Citation
2026 Anaf, J., Baum, F., & Freeman, T. (2026). Privatized employment services in Australia: addressing social, health, and equity impacts for health promotion. Health Promotion International, 41(1), 13 pages.
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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), 11 pages.
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2025 Freeman, T., Foley, K., Anaf, J., Nosworthy, B., & Baum, F. (2025). A systematic-narrative hybrid review of evidence: Exploring how corporate social responsibility initiatives impact population health. Health, 29(6), 1-21.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
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.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
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 Baum, F., Anaf, J., & Laris, P. (2025). The government must protect the NHS by rejecting further privatisation. BMJ, 389, 2 pages.
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2025 Anaf, J., Freeman, T., & Baum, F. (2025). Outsourcing Policy-Related Functions in Australia: Health and Equity Impacts. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 55(4), 428-440.
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2024 Anaf, J., Freeman, T., & Baum, F. (2024). Privatisation of government services in Australia: what is known about health and equity impacts. Globalization and Health, 20(1), 32-1-32-12.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC4
2024 Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2024). Health and equity impacts of global consultancy firms. Globalization and Health, 20(1), 55-1-55-11.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC4
2024 Baum, F., & Anaf, J. (2024). Practices of Trans-National Corporations: The Need to Change Global Economic and Political Norms Comment on "National Public Health Surveillance of Corporations in Key Unhealthy Commodity Industries – A Scoping Review and Framework Synthesis". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 13(1), 8660-1-8660-3.
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2023 Baum, F., & Anaf, J. (2023). Corporatisation and the health of Australian Universities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 47(3), 100057-1-100057-3.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC3
2022 Javanparast, S., Anaf, J., & Tieman, J. (2022). Equity consideration in palliative care policies, programs, and evaluation: an analysis of selected federal and South Australian documents. BMC Palliative Care, 21(1), 14 pages.
DOI Scopus11 WoS9 Europe PMC6
2022 Anaf, J., Baum, F., Fisher, M., Haigh, F., Miller, E., Gesesew, H., & Freudenberg, N. (2022). Assessing the health impacts of transnational corporations: a case study of Carlton and United Breweries in Australia.. Globalization and Health, 18(1), 80-1-80-22.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC5
2022 Baum, F., & Anaf, J. (2022). A World Beyond Trans-National Corporations: Meeting Human Rather Than Corporate Need; Comment on ""Part of the Solution:" Food Corporation Strategies for Regulatory Capture and Legitimacy". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(11), 2748-2751.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2021 Anaf, J., Fisher, I., Handsley, E., Baum, F., & Friel, S. (2021). 'Sweet talk': Framing the merits of a sugar tax in Australia. Health Promotion International, 36(5), 1334-1345.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC5
2020 Anaf, J., Baum, F., Fisher, M., & Friel, S. (2020). Civil society action against transnational corporations: Implications for health promotion. Health Promotion International, 35(4), 877-887.
DOI Scopus19 WoS15 Europe PMC14
2020 Anaf, J. M. (2020). A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care. Medical Journal of Australia, 212(3), 140-140.e1.
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2019 Anaf, J., Baum, F., Fisher, M., & London, L. (2019). The health impacts of extractive industry transnational corporations: A study of Rio Tinto in Australia and Southern Africa. Globalization and Health, 15(1), 20 pages.
DOI Scopus32 WoS25 Europe PMC19
2018 Anaf, J., Baum, F., & Fisher, I. M. (2018). A citizens’ jury on regulation of McDonald's products and operations in Australia in response to a corporate health impact assessment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 42(2), 133-139.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC5
2017 Anaf, J., Baum, F. E., Fisher, M., Harris, E., & Friel, S. (2017). Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: A case study on McDonald's Australia. Globalization and Health, 13(1), 16 pages.
DOI Scopus45 WoS35 Europe PMC29
2017 Anaf, J. M. (2017). Voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia: Are we really better off dead?. Medical Journal of Australia, 206(8), 369-369.e1.
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2016 Baum, F. E., Sanders, D. M., Fisher, M., Anaf, J., Freudenberg, N., Friel, S., . . . Sen, A. (2016). Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: Its importance and a framework. Globalization and Health, 12(1), 7 pages.
DOI Scopus79 WoS72 Europe PMC52
2015 Baum, F. E., & Anaf, J. M. (2015). Transnational corporations and health: A research agenda. International Journal of Health Services, 45(2), 353-362.
DOI Scopus19 WoS17 Europe PMC17
2014 Anaf, J., Baum, F., Freeman, T., Labonte, R., Javanparast, S., Jolley, G., . . . Bentley, M. (2014). Factors shaping intersectoral action in primary health care services. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 38(6), 553-559.
DOI Scopus33 WoS29 Europe PMC24
2013 Anaf, J., Baum, F., Newman, L., Ziersch, A., & Jolley, G. (2013). The interplay between structure and agency in shaping the mental health consequences of job loss. BMC Public Health, 13(1), 12 pages.
DOI Scopus29 WoS23 Europe PMC16
2013 Anaf, J., Newman, L., Baum, F., Ziersch, A., & Jolley, G. (2013). Policy environments and job loss: Lived experience of retrenched Australian automotive workers. Critical Social Policy, 33(2), 325-347.
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2008 Cooper, L., Anaf, J., & Bowden, M. (2008). Can social workers and police be partners when dealing with bikie-gang related domestic violence and sexual assault?. European Journal of Social Work, 11(3), 295-311.
DOI Scopus24 WoS16
2006 Cooper, L., Anaf, J., & Bowden, M. (2006). Contested concepts in violence against women: ‘Intimate’, ‘Domestic’ or ‘Torture’?. Australian Social Work, 59(3), 314-327.
DOI Scopus11
2006 Cooper, L., Anaf, J., & Bowden, M. (2006). Intimate partner violence in deviant settings: Complex needs of women survivors. Australian Family Physician, 35(10), 791-793.
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2003 Hunt, R. W., Parker, M., Syme, R. A., Anaf, J. M., Nommensen, C. F., Coombe, F. J., & Somerville, M. A. (2003). "Death talk": Debating euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Australia (multiple letters). Medical Journal of Australia, 179(1), 57-60.
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2003 Somerville, M. A. (2003). "Death talk": debating euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Australia. MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, 178(4), 171-174.
DOI WoS15 Europe PMC7

Year Citation
2023 Mialon, M., Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2023). Learning from Experience: Identifying Key Intervention Points Around Corporate Practices to Improve Health. In N. Maani, M. Pettigrew, & S. Galeo (Eds.), The Commercial Determinants of Health (pp. 330-340). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2023 Mialon, M., Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2023). Learning from Experience: Identifying Key Intervention Points Around Corporate Practices to Improve Health. In N. Maani, M. Pettigrew, & S. Galeo (Eds.), The Commercial Determinants of Health (pp. 330-340). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2023 Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2023). Global Health and Equity Burden of Commercial Determinants of Health. In N. Maani, M. Pettigrew, & S. Galeo (Eds.), The Commercial Determinants of Health (pp. 17-26). Oxford University Press.
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2023 Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2023). Global Health and Equity Burden of Commercial Determinants of Health. In N. Maani, M. Pettigrew, & S. Galeo (Eds.), The Commercial Determinants of Health (pp. 17-26). Oxford University Press.
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2023 Mialon, M., Anaf, J., & Baum, F. (2023). Learning from Experience. In N. Maani, M. Petticrew, & S. Galea (Eds.), The Commercial Determinants of Health (pp. 330-340). Oxford University PressNew York.
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2022 Anaf, J., Fisher, I., & Baum, F. (2022). Using Critical Theory to Research Commercial Determinants of Health: Health Impact Assessment of the Practices and Products of Transnational Corporations. In L. Potvin, & D. Jourdan (Eds.), Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1: Mapping Health Promotion Research: With Contributions by Catherine Chabot and Valérie Ivassenko (Vol. 1, pp. 497-511). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Imprint.
DOI Scopus3
2022 Anaf, J., Fisher, I., & Baum, F. (2022). Using Critical Theory to Research Commercial Determinants of Health: Health Impact Assessment of the Practices and Products of Transnational Corporations. In L. Potvin, & D. Jourdan (Eds.), Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1: Mapping Health Promotion Research: With Contributions by Catherine Chabot and Valérie Ivassenko (Vol. 1, pp. 497-511). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Imprint.
DOI Scopus3

Year Citation
2020 Baum, F., Anaf, J., & Fisher, M. (2020). How can corporate HIA help shape regulatory environments for Trans-National Corporations?. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the 16th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH2020), as published in European Journal of Public Health. virtual online: Oxford University Press.
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2004 Arthurson, K., & Anaf, J. (2004). Arthurson, Kathy/Anaf, Julia 2006: Social Mix and Disadvantaged Communities: Clarifying the Links between Policy, Practice and the Evidence Base. Paper. Presented at the ENHR Conference July 2-6, Cambridge, UK.. Poster session presented at the meeting of ENHR Conference July 2-6, Cambridge, UK.. Cambridge UK.
2004 Arthurson, K., & Anaf, J. (2004). Arthurson, Kathy/Anaf, Julia 2006: Social Mix and Disadvantaged Communities: Clarifying the Links between Policy, Practice and the Evidence Base. Paper. Presented at the ENHR Conference July 2-6, Cambridge, UK.. Poster session presented at the meeting of ENHR Conference July 2-6, Cambridge, UK.. Cambridge UK.

Year Citation
2012 Anaf, J. (2012). The lived experience of job loss. Consequences for health and well-being and implications for social policy. (PhD Thesis, Flinders University of Adelaide).
1994 Anaf, J. (1994). Politics at the end of life. (Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Adelaide).

My employment is part-time and a research-only role.

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member Public Health Association of Australia Australia

Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country
1998 - ongoing Vice President Voluntary Assisted Dying South Australia Public Community Engagement Voluntary Assisted Dying South Australia -

Date Institution Department Organisation Type Country
2022 - ongoing University of Adelaide Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute Advocacy Australia
2016 - ongoing University of Adelaide Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, Scientific research Australia

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