Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) to improve research strengths for tackling complex real-world problems through synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, understanding and managing diverse unknowns and providing integrated research support for policy and practice change (see http://i2s.anu.edu.au). This is described in Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (ANU E Press, 2013; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=222171). She runs the Integration and Implementation Inisghts (i2Inisghts) blog (https://i2insights.org/) and convenes the Global Network for Research Integration and Implementation: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Global-Network-Research-Integration-Implementation-4888295.

She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany (2019-20), an ANU Public Policy Fellow, an inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholar alumna and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-14) and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland (2015-2018), along with short-term appointments at ETH-Zurich (2007) and the Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur in Vienna (2012). From 2007-2013 she was the convenor of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security's Integration and Implementation research program.

She co-convenes (with Michael Smithson) an edX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on 'Ignorance!'.

Between 2011-13 she was Director of the ANU's Research School of Population Health, Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and co-Director and then Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.