Rob Donovan
Rob Donovan (Ph.D. Psychology) is the Founder of the Act-Belong-Commit Campaign and Adjunct Professor in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He was formerly a Professor of Behavioural Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. After a career in commercial marketing, he returned to academia in the early 1990s. He has conducted research and program development across a broad range of areas, including alcohol, tobacco and drugs, physical activity and the built environment, child abuse, domestic violence, racism, doping in sport, suicide prevention, and mental health. He currently chairs the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Social Sciences Research Expert Advisory Group. He has an international reputation in social marketing and health promotion and has (co-)authored over 250 journal articles, books, and book chapters across marketing, psychology, and public health, and a similar number of technical reports for government and non-government organizations across a variety of health and social policy areas.
Some publications of Rob’s work can be found here:
Rob Donovan
5:20 ABC Model and What is mental health?
8:50 What grandmothers have known about health all along
16:20 The ABCs of ABC
29:50 Historical Knowledge and Building Positive Preventative Health
32:55 Hard to Proof a Negative
35:30 Health is Health, Whole Person Health
37:05 Healing on Country
39:50 Healing
43:35 21 Reasons
47:15 the Novelty of Gathering Networks