Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Dr Simon Barraclough

Contact Details

Email: s.barraclough@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9479 5713
International: +61 3 9479 5713
Fax: (03) 9479 1783
International: +61 3 9479 1783
Office: HS1-216

Qualifications

BA(Hons) ANU, MA Lond., PhD Qld

Dr Simon Barraclough read for an honours degree in political science at the Australian National University before taking his master's degree through the London School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, The University of London. His doctorate was obtained from the Department of Government at the University of Queensland.

Interests

Dr Simon Barraclough teaches in an advanced health policy subject at La Trobe University and for the Corporate Awards Program at the Department of Health and Aged Care in Canberra. He has also developed a pioneering subject in Australia's international health relations and has supervised research students from Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Apart from a general interest in health policy, Dr Barraclough's research interests include the political economy of health systems in developing countries, international investment in health services, health industry exports, international health relations and tobacco control policies in developing countries.

Publications

Charay Vichathai and Simon Barraclough, "Equity issues in dental health care in Thailand", Australian Journal of Primary Health -Interchange, Vol. 4, No.2 , 1998

Simon Barraclough "The Asian currency crisis and the Australian health industry", Australian Health Review Vol. 21 No. 4 , 1998

Simon Barraclough, "Constraints on the retreat from a welfare-orientated approach to public health care in Malaysia " Health Policy Vol.47, 1999

Simon Barraclough, "Women and tobacco in Indonesia" Tobacco Control, Vol.8, 1999

Nguyen Thanh Son, Simon Barraclough, Martha Morrow, Duong Quang Trung "Controlling infant formula promotion in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: barriers to policy implementation in the health sector" Australian Journal of Primary Health-Interchange, Vol.6, No.1, 2000

Simon Barraclough, "The Politics of Privatization in the Malaysian Health Care System", Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 22 No.2 August 2000

Martha Morrow and Simon Barraclough, "Tobacco control and gender: A need for new approaches for the Asia-Pacific region", Development Bulletin, No.54 (March) 2001, pp. 23-26

Morrow, M., & Barraclough, S. (2003). Tobacco control and gender in Southeast Asia. Part 1: Malaysia and the Philippines. Health Promotion International, 18(3), 255-264.

Morrow, M., & Barraclough, S. (2003). Tobacco control and gender in Southeast Asia. Part 2: Singapore and Vietnam. Health Promotion International, 18(4), 373 - 380.

Moonesinghe, Loshan N., & Barraclough, Simon. (2007). Domestic violence against women in Sri Lanka: The role of primary health care in complementing human rights and legal responses. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 13(1), 52-60.

Barraclough, S., & Phua, K.-L. (2007). Health imperatives in foreign policy: The case of Malaysia. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 85(3), 225-229.