Professor Bauman disease prevention research. He led the Prevention Research Collaboration up to 2019, a specialised research group within the Sydney School of Public Health with expertise in non-communicable disease prevention and other aspects of applied research in primary prevention, epidemiology and health promotion. Until mid 2019, he led the Physical Activity, Exercise and Energy Expenditure Theme at the Charles Perkins Centre, Professor Bauman Chairs the University-wide physical activity network (PLANET). He is co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Physical activity, obesity and nutrition.

Current projects are in physical activity epidemiolgy, population surveillance , evaluating complex public health programs, implementation science/ research translation, and the evaluation of health related social marketing and mass media/social media campaigns