Rate My Professor Raglan Maddox

Associate Professor Raglan Maddox, from the Modewa Clan of Papua New Guinea, serves as Associate Professor at the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health within the Research School of Population Health. He leads the Tobacco Free Program at Yardhura Walani, the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research. Maddox holds a PhD from the University of Canberra, a Master of Public Health from Curtin University, and a BSc from Curtin University. His research program centers on developing population-based Indigenous health information systems through community-driven processes. This work creates primary data platforms to enhance understanding and improvement of Indigenous health and wellbeing, encompassing mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical dimensions. These systems collaborate with Indigenous communities and service providers to gather information that informs, evaluates, and refines programs and policies.

Maddox’s research specializations include commercial tobacco use, tobacco programs and policies, longitudinal cohort studies, social epidemiology, and social determinants of health and wellbeing. He supervises the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Study, which investigates tobacco use behaviors and attitudes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, assesses the effectiveness of interventions in reducing smoking prevalence, and establishes frameworks for ongoing monitoring and evaluation using Indigenous methodologies. His scholarly contributions feature prominent publications such as 'Eradication of commercial tobacco related disease and death' (2025), 'Review of tobacco use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander' (2020), 'Building love and justice, ending harms: a framework for abolishing the tobacco and nicotine industry' (2025), 'Indigenous sovereignty in research and epistemic justice' (2025), 'Defining the commercial tobacco industry in a changing nicotine landscape' (2026), 'Ethical publishing in ‘Indigenous’ contexts' (2024), 'Shaping the end of the Australian commercial tobacco epidemic: insights from Indigenous and non-Indigenous tobacco control policy actor interviews' (2025), and 'The Ottawa Charter: Indigenous sovereignty, resistance, and health promotion at 40' (2025). These works advance policy and practice for self-determined health solutions, strengths-based tobacco control, and prevention of harms like domestic violence through respectful relationships.