Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 1997
Panel: A
Discipline: Sociology

Professor Dorothy Broom, AM

National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Australian National University

Broom, Dorothy Howard. BA (hons) (Carelton College), MA (U. Illinois), PhD (ANU)

Dorothy Broom is Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University. She conducts health research and teaches and supervises graduate students in population health. Her work concentrates on the following areas:

  • inequalities in health
  • parental working conditions and children's well-being
  • sex/gender and health
  • social trends underlying the rise in population obesity
  • chronic conditions
  • theories of health and embodiment
  • health consequences of international trade regimes.

Key appointments

  • National Public Health Partnership, Chairs of National Strategies Coordinating Committee

Key publications

  • Dorothy Broom (2008) Gender in/and/of health inequalities (in press), Australian Journal of Social Issues.
  • (2007) The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the Modern World is Making Us Fat. Sydney: UNSW Press.
  • D Broom, R D'Souza, L Strazdins, P Butterworth, R Parslow, B.Rodgers (2006) The lesser evil: bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians, Social Science & Medicine 63 (3): 575-586.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (2003) Big yellow taxi, or, unhealthy terms of trade, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 27 (3):271-2.
  • Dorothy H. Broom and Andrea Whittaker (2003) Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: moral language in the management of diabetes type 2, Social Science & Medicine 58(11): 2371-2382.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (2003) Familiarity breeds neglect? Unanticipated benefits of discontinuous primary care, Family Practice 20(5): 503-507.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (2001) Reading breast cancer, Health, 5(2):249-268.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (2001) Public health, private body, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(1):5-8.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (1998) By women, for women: the continuing appeal of women's health centres, Women & Health, 28(1):5-22.
  • Dorothy H. Broom and Roslyn V. Woodward (1996) Medicalisation reconsidered: toward a collaborative model of care, Sociology of Health & Illness, 18(3):358-378.
  • Dorothy H. Broom (1991) Damned If We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin.


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