Peter Baker

I have written extensively about men’s issues and men’s health since the 1980s. In addition to a wide range of articles in newspapers, magazines and websites, I have contributed:

• ‘Men’s Health Policy Developments Across the World’ in Men’s Health (Fourth Edition), eds. RS Kirby et al (2021).
• ‘Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: How Does the Impact of COVID-19 Vary by Gender?’ (with R. Morgan et al). Frontiers in Sociology 2021; doi:10.3389/fsoc.2021.650729.
• ‘Men and COVID-19: where’s the policy?’ (with C. Alemann et al). BMJ Global Health Blog 2021 (24 April).
• ‘Eliminating HPV-caused cancers in Europe: Achieving the possible’ (with D. Kelly et al). Journal of Cancer Policy 2021;28:100280.
• ‘Men, deprivation and COVID-19’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2021;12(1):22-25.
• ‘Men’s health policy: It is time for action’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2020;11(6):11-13.
• ‘Men’s health: COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for overdue policy action’ (with A.White and R. Morgan). The Lancet 2020;395:1886-1888.
• ‘COVID-19, Equity and Men’s Health: Using Evidence to Inform Future Public Health Policy, Practice and Research Responses in Pandemics’ (with J. Smith, D. Griffith, A. White, et al). International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health 2020;3(1)e48-64.
• From the Margins to the Mainstream: Advocating the Inclusion of Men’s Health in Policy. A scoping study. Global Action on Men’s Health, London (UK); 2020.
• ‘Men’s Health’ in Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities: A Practical Guide, eds. J Matheson et al (2020).
• ‘Improving men’s health: successful initiatives and barriers to progress’. British Journal of Nursing 2019:28(11):721-722.
• ‘Jabs for the Boys: How the campaign for gender-neutral HPV vaccination was won in the UK’ (with G. Prue et al). International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health 2019:2(1).
• ‘Global Men’s Health Policy’ (with N. Richardson, et al) in Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook, eds. DM Griffith et al (2019).
• ‘Who self-cares wins: an updated perspective on men and self-care’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2019:10(3):19-22.
• ‘The Forgotten Sex: Why is men’s health ignored by policy makers’. The Telegraph (15 April 2019).
• Who Self-Cares Wins: A global perspective on men and self-care. (Global Action on Men’s Health; London, 2019).
• ‘A European men’s health strategy: here at last’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2019:10(1):21-24.
• ‘Putting men on the gender agenda: WHO Europe’s new men’s health strategy’. Health Europa Quarterly 2018:7:70-71.
• ‘It is time for universal HPV vaccination’ (with G. Prue et al). Lancet 2018:392(10151):913-914.
• HPV and Throat Cancer: Information for patients, their families and loved ones; HPV and Throat Cancer: Talking to patients and their families. A guide for clinicians and other health professionals (Throat Cancer Foundation; 2018).
• ‘Access to HPV vaccination for boys in the United Kingdom’ (with G. Prue et al). Medicine Access @ Point of Care 2018 doi.org/10.1177/2399202618799691.
• ‘HPV vaccination for boys: How the case was won’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2018:9(5):25-27.
• Men’s Health: Nurse-led Projects in the Community (The Queen’s Nursing Institute; London, September 2018).
• ‘The HPV Action story’. British Dental Journal 2018;225(4):281-282.
• ‘Men’s Health: Time for a policy response’. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health 2018:1(Special Issue 1):e1-e5.
• ‘Men’s health: the case for global action’. Lancet Global Health Blog (17 April 2018).
• ‘HPV vaccination: is it time for jabs for the boys?’ Health Europa Quarterly 2018(5).
• ‘1 in 10: The diabetes crisis in men’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2018:9(2):25-28.
• ‘Men’s health: time for a new approach’. Physical Therapy Reviews  30 March 2018.
• ‘Men’s mental health: coming out of the closet?’ Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2017:8(6):19-22.
• One in Ten: The Male Diabetes Crisis (Men’s Health Forum; London, November 2017).
• ‘Improving men’s health in Ireland’. Update 2017:3(8):7-8.
• ‘A Call for Gender-Inclusive Global Health Strategies’ (with M.J. Rovito et al). American Journal of Men’s Health 2017 DOI: 10.1177/1557988317723424.
• Putting MEN into MENtal Health: Key issues briefing (Men’s Health Forum and Somerset County Council, May 2017).
• ’25 years post-Calman: the state of men’s health in the UK’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2017:8(4):13-16.
• ‘Men’s Health: time for a new approach to policy and practice?’ (with T. Shand). Journal of Global Health 2017:7(1) doi: 10.7189/jogh.07.010306.
• Oak Foundation Grant-Making Programme on Engaging Men and Boys in Ending the Sexual Abuse of Children and Violence to Children in General. Independent Review (with S. Ruxton and E. Stern). Published April 2017.
• ‘Men and health promotion in the United Kingdom: 20 years further forward?’ (with S. Robertson). Health Education Journal 2017:76(1):102-113.
• ‘”Man MOT”: a new approach to primary care for men’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2017:8(1):13-16.
• ‘Men’s health: an overlooked inequality’. British Journal of Nursing 2016:25(19):2-5.
• ‘Human papillomavirus (HPV): making the case for “Immunisation for All”‘ (with G. Prue, M. Lawler and S. Warnakulasuriya). Oral Diseases 2016 DOI: 10.1111/odi.12562.
• ‘Man MOT Project –  Key Lessons: How Online Anonymity Works for Men. Evaluation Report of the Man MOT Project 2013-16,  an online health advice and information service run by the Men’s Health Forum’. Men’s Health Forum, June 2016.
• ‘HPV vaccinations for men and boys’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2016:7(4):30-31.
• ‘Men’s health: a global problem requiring global solutions’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2016:7(3):11-14.
• ‘The gender divide’. Dental Nursing 2016:12(4):228-229.
• ‘A step into no man’s land’ (with I. Banks). Practice Management 2016 (February):18-19.
• ‘HPV vaccination: let’s have it for the boys too’. Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2016:7(1):10-11.
• ‘Jabs for the boys: the case for gender-neutral HPV vaccination’. Perspectives in Public Health 2016:136:28-29.
• ‘Worth the paper they’re written on? The potential role of national men’s health policies’, Eurohealth 2015:21(4):27-29.
• ‘National men’s health policies: can they help?’, Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2015:6(6):24-26.
• ‘Engaging men with long-term conditions in self-management support’ (with P. Galdas), Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2015:6(5):16-18.
• Review of the National Men’s Health Policy and Action Plan 2008-13. Final report (Dublin: Health Service Executive/Department of Health, 2015).
• ‘Going gender-neutral with the HPV vaccine’, British Journal of Nursing 2014:23(10):252.
• ‘Jabs for the Boys’, Practice Management, July/August 2014: 24-25.
• ‘Men and Primary Care: Improving Access and Outcomes’ (with I. Banks), Eurohealth, 2014:20(1):22-24.
• ‘The men’s health gap: Men must be included in the global health equity agenda’ (with S.L. Dworkin et al), WHO Bulletin 2014:92:618-620.
• A Step into No Man’s Land: Improving men’s use of primary care services in Europe. A report on the European Men’s Health Forum’s workshop on Men’s Health at EHF Gastein (European Men’s Health Forum, 2013).
• ‘Framework for Evidence Assessment Based on Grade and Application to HPV Vaccination in Males in the European Health Care Context’ (with U. Siebert, G. Sroczynski G, O Borget, et al), Value in Health 2013;16(7):A327.
• Men’s Health and Primary Care: Improving Access and Outcomes (European Men’s Health Forum, 2013).
• ‘What about the boys?’, SAPHNA Journal of School and Public Health Nursing 2014:2(1):24-26.
• ‘Men and primary care: improving access and outcomes’ (with I. Banks), Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2013:4(5):39-41
• ‘Current issues in men’s health’, Trends in Urology and Men’s Health 2012;3(1):19-21
• One Million More Men: The Men’s Health Forum Physical Activity and Sport Challenge. A policy statement for National Men’s Health Week 2010 (Men’s Health Forum, 2010)
• ‘Health’ in S. Ruxton (ed), Man Made: Men, masculinities and equality in public policy (Coalition on Men and Boys, 2009)
• Challenges and Choices: Improving health services to save men’s lives. A policy briefing for National Men’s Health Week 2009 (Men’s Health Forum, 2009)
• Beyond the greasy spoon: Improving the diet of male construction workers (with P. McGlone; Men’s Health Forum, 2009)
• Getting It Sorted: A Policy Programme for Men’s Health (with D. Wilkins; Men’s Health Forum, 2004)
• ‘Men’s Health Week’, Community Practitioner 2004;77(6):198
• ‘Men’s Health Policy’, Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 2004;124(5):205-206
• ‘Men’s Health and Economic Well-being’, Local Economy 2004;19(3):278-281
• Real Health for Men (Vega, 2002)

This easy-to-read, thoroughly-researched book is truly comprehensive and wide-ranging. Real Health for Men works as both a reference book and as a good read, something I thought was an impossible trick to pull off until I read it – all in all, an incredible achievement in barely 250 pages”

Jim Pollard, editor, www.malehealth.co.uk

• ‘Men’s health policy’, Practice Nursing 2002;13(7):289
• ‘The state of men’s health’, Men’s Health Journal 2001;1(1):6-7
• ‘The international men’s health movement’, BMJ 2001;323(7320):1014–1015
• ‘The new men’s media’ in N. Davidson and T. Lloyd (eds), Promoting Men’s Health: A guide for practitioners (Balliere Tindall, 2001)
• The MANual: The complete man’s guide to life (with M. Cooper; Thorsons, 1996)

Rather than push some minority line, pet theme or new chauvinist solution, [this book] tackles men as a whole and as we are … The MANual is a first-class guide”

Phillip Hodson, psychotherapist, author and broadcaster

• ‘Bringing the male crisis into the open’ in T. Lloyd and T. Wood (eds), What Next for Men?(Working with Men, 1996)
• ‘Maintaining Male Power: Why Heterosexual Men Use Pornography’ in C. Itzin (ed), Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties (OUP, 1992)
• I was also a co-editor of, and a regular contributor to, Achilles Heel magazine (1989-92). Achilles Heel aimed to provide a forum for discussion of men and masculinity from a gender equality perspective.