Dr Fiona Mensah
Dr Fiona Mensah
Details
Role
Team Leader / Senior Research Fellow
Research area
Population Health
Group
Intergenerational Health
Fiona Mensah works at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) and Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne, based within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU).
At MCRI, Fiona works with the Population Health theme groups: Language and Literacy, Community Health Services Research, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, and Policy Equity and Translation. She advises on study design, analysis, presentation and publication and has a role in research training and capacity building.
Fiona's research is about understanding children's development from early life to adolescence. She uses longitudinal cohort studies to examine children's health and developmental pathways over this time and how these may be influenced by their experiences and the family and community environments around them.
Fiona's research considers how family and community strengths, vulnerabilities and resilience may affect children's development, looking at many aspects of children's health and development including language and cognitive development, socio-emotional wellbeing, mental health and behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and obesity.
At MCRI, Fiona works with the Population Health theme groups: Language and Literacy, Community Health Services Research, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, and Policy Equity and Translation. She advises on study design, analysis, presentation and publication and has a role in research training and capacity building.
Fiona's research is about understanding children's development from early life to adolescence. She uses longitudinal cohort studies to examine children's health and developmental pathways over this time and how these may be influenced by their experiences and the family and community environments around them.
Fiona's research considers how family and community strengths, vulnerabilities and resilience may affect children's development, looking at many aspects of children's health and development including language and cognitive development, socio-emotional wellbeing, mental health and behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and obesity.
Fiona Mensah works at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) and Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne, based within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU).
At MCRI,...
At MCRI,...
Fiona Mensah works at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) and Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne, based within the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU).
At MCRI, Fiona works with the Population Health theme groups: Language and Literacy, Community Health Services Research, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, and Policy Equity and Translation. She advises on study design, analysis, presentation and publication and has a role in research training and capacity building.
Fiona's research is about understanding children's development from early life to adolescence. She uses longitudinal cohort studies to examine children's health and developmental pathways over this time and how these may be influenced by their experiences and the family and community environments around them.
Fiona's research considers how family and community strengths, vulnerabilities and resilience may affect children's development, looking at many aspects of children's health and development including language and cognitive development, socio-emotional wellbeing, mental health and behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and obesity.
At MCRI, Fiona works with the Population Health theme groups: Language and Literacy, Community Health Services Research, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, and Policy Equity and Translation. She advises on study design, analysis, presentation and publication and has a role in research training and capacity building.
Fiona's research is about understanding children's development from early life to adolescence. She uses longitudinal cohort studies to examine children's health and developmental pathways over this time and how these may be influenced by their experiences and the family and community environments around them.
Fiona's research considers how family and community strengths, vulnerabilities and resilience may affect children's development, looking at many aspects of children's health and development including language and cognitive development, socio-emotional wellbeing, mental health and behaviour, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and obesity.
Top Publications
- Shipton, A, Shang, F, Wake, M, Goldfeld, S, Mensah, F. Lessons for the Next Global Health Crisis: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Women's Experiences of the Perinatal Period During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia.. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 66(1) : e70054 2026 view publication
- Osborn, W, Simm, P, Olds, T, Lycett, K, Mensah, F, Muller, J, Fraysse, F, Ismail, N, Vlok, J, Wake, M. Bone health at 11-12 years, physical activity and sedentariness: a cross-sectional Australian population-based study. Bone Abstracts 2026 view publication
- Ritte, R, Freemantle, J, Mensah, F, Sullivan, M, Chang, S, Read, A. Using population data linkage to make the invisible, visible: patterns and trends in mortality for Victorian born Aboriginal compared with non-Indigenous Victorian infants. International Journal for Population Data Science 1(1) : 237 2026 view publication
- Ritte, R, Freemantle, J, Mensah, F, Sullivan, M. Visibility in health statistics: a population data linkage study more accurately identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Births in Victoria, Australia, 1988-2008. International Journal for Population Data Science 1(1) : 234 2026 view publication
- Jansen, PW, Mensah, FK, Nicholson, JM, Wake, M. Correction: Family and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Trajectories of BMI and Overweight: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. PLOS ONE 8(7) : 10.1371/annotation/f7e5e1f3-77f6-4c56-b0ba-53b54a86df14 2026 view publication
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