Rate My Professor Gabriele Bammer

Professor Gabriele Bammer is a Professor of Integration and Implementation Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU), based in the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health within the Department of Health Economics, Wellbeing and Society. She earned BSc, BA, and PhD degrees. Bammer is at the forefront of developing Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S), a new discipline aimed at improving theory and methods for diverse disciplines and stakeholders to collaboratively tackle complex societal and environmental problems. This involves fostering expertise in twelve key areas: change, communication, complexity, context, decision-making, diversity, integration, research implementation, stakeholder engagement, systems, teamwork, and unknowns. Her seminal book, Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (ANU E Press, 2013), lays the foundation, complemented by recent advancements like Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 3.0 (2024). As leader of the Integration and Implementation Sciences group at ANU, she convenes the global Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights) community, which disseminates practical tools, concepts, and frameworks for i2S.

Bammer's distinguished career includes directing the ANU Research School of Population Health, the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute between 2011 and 2013. She also convened the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security’s Integration and Implementation research program from 2007 to 2013 and co-convened an edX MOOC on ‘Ignorance!’ with Michael Smithson. An ANU Public Policy Fellow and inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholar alumna, she was elected inaugural President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance) in 2023 and re-elected for 2025-2026. Visiting appointments span Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-2014), the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (2015-2018), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam (2019-2020). In 2024, she received the Peter Baume Award, ANU’s most prestigious honor for eminent achievement. With 187 research outputs, notable publications include ‘Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter- and transdisciplinarity’ (2024) and contributions to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity (2024).