Ashley Schram
Dr Ashley Schram
Qualifications
BA (Hons Psychology), MSc (Measurement and Methods), PhD (Population Health)
Ashley is a Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance. From 2017-2019 Ashley led a programme of research on policy evaluation in an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity.
Her research investigates the regulation, governance, policy, and politics of the social determinants of health inequities. Focal areas include food systems, trade and investment liberalisation, noncommunicable diseases, and sustainable development.
She is currently an investigator on several projects including an ARC Discovery Project examining how ideas, norms, institutional rules and relationships between actors can be used to rebalance power in policy making for better nutrition outcomes; a Medical Research Future Fund project mapping and critically evaluating Australia’s food and nutrition regulation and governance regime to identify evidence-informed options to facilitate Australia’s transition to a nutritious food system; and an Asia-Pacific Innovation Project exploring the utility of Twitter as a forum to better understand public sentiment to regulation through a study of narrative around the lockout laws in Sydney. She has recently undertaken a contract with the World Health Organization for work related to trade and nutrition.
Ashley is an author on 35+ peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including publications in Nature Food, Addiction, Public Health Nutrition, International Journal of Health Policy & Management, Health Policy, and Social Science and Medicine. She previously worked in the Office of International Affairs for the Health Portfolio providing research, analysis, and advice for the Government of Canada on matters related to international trade and investment policy and domestic health regulation. She has also co-facilitated several workshops, roundtables and training sessions for academics, practitioners, policymakers and nongovernmental organisations on trade and investment and health. Ashley has been invited to speak on trade and health at more than 10 international events.
Research Interests
- Food systems
- International trade and investment
- Governance for health
- Public health nutrition
- Public policy
- Social determinants of health and health equity
- Noncommunicable disease
- Sustainable development
Ashley Schram receives the VC's Award for Emerging Early Career Academics
The 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s and Chancellor’s Annual Awards were held last night highlighting the outstanding contribution and commitment of professional and academic staff at ANU
RegNet scholars awarded APIP grant in regulation and governance research
We are delighted to announce that Professor Miranda Forsyth, Professor Alan Gamlen, Dr Lia Kent, Dr Ibolya Losoncz, Dr Louise Olliff, Dr Ashley Schram and Dr Belinda Townsend have secured funding f
Research Officer opportunity with the Menzies Centre for Health Governance
The Menzies Centre for Health Governance (MCHG) at RegNet is seeking an energetic Research Officer to provide comprehensive project management and research support on a di
RegNet scholars awarded NHMRC Ideas Grant
We are delighted to announce that Ashley Schram (Chief Investigator), Sharon Friel and Belinda Townsend has been awarded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC
Regulatory governance pathways to improve the efficacy of Australian food policies
Researchers Sharon Friel, Yandisa Ngqangashe and Ashley Schram from the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) recently completed a Me
MCHG co-director Dr Ashley Schram member of Go8 Road to Recovery Taskforce
Dr Ashley Schram, co-director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance MCHG was
Ashley Schram and Jensen Sass awarded Braithwaite Fellowship
The ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) is delighted to announce that ANU RegNet Research Fellow
RegNet scholars host first national capacity-building roundtable on trade and health
By Belinda Townsend and Ashley Schram
Regulating Consumptagenic Systems
The ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) hosted an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Workshop on ‘Regulating
Current
Discursive frames in food marketing policy
The aim of this research project is to examine the frames and underlying discourses that shape the classification of food in existing government and industry food marketing policies globally.
Governing harmful commodities: the case of ultra-processed foods
This ARC Discovery Project (2019-2022) aims to generate new knowledge on how to effect the development and implementation of multisectoral public policy to reduce the supply and consumption of ultra-p
Health equity implications of COVID-19
The Australian Government, like many governments worldwide, initiated a significant public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Smart and responsive regulation for population nutrition
This project examines the basic architectures of regulation and governance related to diet-related NCDs in four policy domains – food composition, food labelling, food taxation and food marketing rest
Completed
#funpolice: what do social media responses to the Australian ‘lockout laws’ tell us about trust and support for public health regulation?
In 2016, two years after new alcohol control legislation (i.e. the lockout laws) went into effect in New South Wales, 70% of voters supported the legislation – by 2018 this declined to 48%.
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity
Many Australians will live shorter lives than others not because of their genetics or the lifestyle choices they make but rather because of the conditions in which they live and the opportunities they
Author(s): Sharon Friel, Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend
Date of publications: 2020
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Ashley Schram, Emma Aisbett, Belinda Townsend, Ronald Labonté , Fran Baum, Sharon Friel
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Ashley Schram, Arne Ruckert, J Anthony VanDuzer, Sharon Friel, Deborah Gleeson, Anne-Marie Thow, David Stuckler, Ronald Labonte
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Ashley Schram
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Journal article
Author(s): Ashley Schram, Ronald Labonte, Phillip Baker, Sharon Friel
Date of publications: 2015
Publication type: Journal article
