John Addison Ballard, BA (Dartmouth), JD (Harvard), PhD (Tufts)
Visiting Fellow, Gender Relations Centre

Email: john.ballard@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

After a decade of research in Africa, Dr Ballard joined the ANU as a Senior Research Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences in 1972 to examine policy-making in Papua New Guinea during the period of decolonisation. He served as Professor of Administrative Studies at the University of Papua New Guinea and held an appointment in the Department of Political Science in The Faculties from 1980 to 1995, becoming Convenor of the Graduate Program in Political Science and International Relations, the largest in the University, for its first five years. He was also co-convenor of a year-long program on Sexualities and Culture at the Humanities Research Centre in 1993. From 1996 Dr Ballard held a Visiting Fellowship in the Graduate Research School, carrying out reviews of graduate coursework and postgraduate scholarships in the university and preparing guidelines for postgraduate research students and convenors, and from 2004 he has held a Visiting Fellowship in the Gender Research Centre.

Research Interests

Public policy, particularly on health issues including HIV and on gender and sexuality, in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the region.

Key Publications

• 'Australian Policy-Making on HIV and Hepatitis C', in Australian Society for HIV Medicine, HIV and Hepatitis C: Policy, Discrimination, Legal and Ethical Issues: Sydney, ASHM, pp 9-22, 2005.
• 'The Politics of Tobacco Control in Australia: International Template?', in Eric Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds., Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Health: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, pp 89-113, 2004.
• 'HIV-Contaminated Blood and Australian Policy', in Eric Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds, Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood and the Politics of Medical Disaster: New York, Oxford University Press, pp 243-270, 1999.
• 'The Constitution of AIDS in Australia: Taking "Government at a Distance" Seriously', in Barry Hindess and Mitchell Dean, eds, Governing Australia: Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp 125-138, 1998.
• 'Sexuality and the State in Time of Epidemic', in R.W. Connell and G.W. Dowsett, eds., Rethinking Sex: Social Theory and Sexuality Research: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, pp 102-116, 1992.
• 'Australia: Participation and Innovation in a Federal System', in David Kirp and Ronald Bayer, eds., AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics and Policies: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, pp 134-167, 1992.
• (ed.) Policy-Making in a New State : Papua New Guinea 1972-1977. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp 331 + xix, 1981.