Dr Gemma Crawford has over 20 years of experience in the practice, advocacy, leadership, policy, teaching and research of health promotion and public health. Her work is underpinned by her commitment to a social justice-oriented framework - the 4-Es: evidence, equity, ethics and empowerment.

As an Associate Professor in Public Health and Health Promotion in the Curtin School of Population Health, Gemma holds roles as Director of Graduate Research and Course Coordinator (Master of Public Health). She also convenes and teaches a range of coursework health promotion and public health units and supervises a large group of HDR students. Gemma is Deputy Director (Capacity-Building) with the Collaboration for Evidence Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH), where, as a social scientist, she undertakes collaborative, community-facing and real-world research and evaluation using applied, qualitative and mixed methods.

She is active in her public health and health promotion professional community, currently serving as a Board Member of the Royal Life Saving Society Australia and the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia. Gemma is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK, Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health,  a foundation member of Women in Public Health, Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner. For more than two decades, she has been involved in the Australian Health Promotion Association, serving as President/Board Chair (10 years), also holding roles as national Vice-President and as WA Branch President and Treasurer. In 2020, Gemma was recognised for meritorious service to AHPA as its youngest life member.

A proud pracademic, Gemma has previously worked within health services and across large organisations in government, private, resources, tertiary and not-for-profit sectors. Her experience spans injury prevention and physical activity; peer education and lived experience; co-design and community participation; capacity building, leadership and governance for public health; knowledge translation; ethics; alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; mental health and social inclusion; sexual health; HIV and other STIs and BBVs; migration; gambling; housing; gender and sexuality.