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Professor Richard Franklin PhD, FPHAA, FARL , MSocSc (Health), BSc, GCertAustRurLeadership, GradCertEd, MACTM, is a pracademic who uses an evidence-based approach to developing real-world solutions to improving health, safety and wellbeing with a focus on health services, rural populations, those working in agriculture, disasters, travel, resilience and drowning. He is a Professor in Public Health and the Director of the World Safety Organization Collaborating Centre - Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion and Director of the WSO Collaborating Centre - Disaster Health, Resilience and Emergency Response at James Cook University.
He has worked in Public Health focusing on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion since 1996. He has worked on projects in the areas of general injury prevention, farm safety, rural safety, workplace health and safety, health promotion, alcohol, disasters and aquatic safety. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney, which explored injuries sustained due to farming and possible prevention strategies, a Master of Social Science (Health), his thesis explored pre-hospital coronary care and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Queensland.
He has previously worked for the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety (a centre of the School of Public Health, University of Sydney) and the Royal Life Saving Society - Australia where he continues as a volunteer Senior Research Fellow. He has worked on a range of community projects, translating evidence into practice aimed at preventing rural, farm, road, aquatic, child and older people related injuries.
His research interests are wide ranging and have included epidemiological, translational, program evaluation, product evaluation, surveillance and pure research. Within the safety domain he is interested in drowning prevention, farm safety, road safety, quad bikes, trauma, CPR, alcohol, chemical safety, child safety, falls and older people. He works with a range of data including linked datasets.
He is the current co-convenor of the Injury Prevention Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia, a board member of Farmsafe Australia and Queensland, a board member of Auschem Training and the Honorary Treasurer for The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Recent Guest Editor for the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Special Issue: Injury Prevention and Health Promotion. He is a member of the Queensland Government - Rural Industry Sector Standing Committee. He is a member of a range of international and national organisations as well as a former President of the Australian Injury Prevention Network.
He was the first National Manager for Research and Health Promotion with the Royal Life Saving Society Australia and through his role with Royal Life Saving has appeared numerous times on television and radio talking about drowning and water safety. Also during this time he developed for the society a new course aimed at older Australians called the Grey Medallion, a course to train home pool inspectors, and programs targeting parents to ensure the safety of their children around aquatic locations. He has been the facilitator of number workshops in Australia and Internationally. He is the Chair of Safety 2022 and the 2020 Farmsafe Conference.
