Associate Professor Giallo leads a productive life course epidemiological and clinical intervention research program focused on optimising the mental health of children and families affected by social adversity and intergenerational trauma. She is particularly passionate about men’s health in early fatherhood, and family-based interventions in the early years of children’s lives to prevent and disrupt intergenerational cycles of poor health within families. This work has been enabled by partnerships with community health services supporting children and their families. Her research is informed by 10 years’ experience as a psychologist working with children and families in educational, hospital and community health settings.
Associate Professor Giallo's vision is to optimise the health of children and their families affected by intergenerational trauma and social adversity across the life course. She is leading research that is informing investment in evidence-based, cost-effective and scalable interventions for families during pregnancy and the critical early years of their child’s development.
Her integrated program of life course epidemiological and clinical intervention research is:
(1) determining the relative contribution of early life adversity, including the COVID-19 pandemic, to poor family health and common child health problems (poor mental health, asthma, obesity) that are of significant burden to children, families and the health care system,
(2) identifying what promotes resilience in children and families experiencing social adversity, and
(3) designing and trialling scalable interventions for harder-to-reach and neglected cohorts such as fathers, families receiving child protection services, and those affected by family violence.
This research program is generating high-quality evidence to reduce health inequalities in socially disadvantaged children and break intergenerational cycles of poor family heath.
Associate Professor Giallo leads a productive life course epidemiological and clinical intervention research program focused on optimising the mental health of children and families affected by social adversity and intergenerational trauma. She is...
Associate Professor Giallo leads a productive life course epidemiological and clinical intervention research program focused on optimising the mental health of children and families affected by social adversity and intergenerational trauma. She is particularly passionate about men’s health in early fatherhood, and family-based interventions in the early years of children’s lives to prevent and disrupt intergenerational cycles of poor health within families. This work has been enabled by partnerships with community health services supporting children and their families. Her research is informed by 10 years’ experience as a psychologist working with children and families in educational, hospital and community health settings.
Associate Professor Giallo's vision is to optimise the health of children and their families affected by intergenerational trauma and social adversity across the life course. She is leading research that is informing investment in evidence-based, cost-effective and scalable interventions for families during pregnancy and the critical early years of their child’s development.
Her integrated program of life course epidemiological and clinical intervention research is:
(1) determining the relative contribution of early life adversity, including the COVID-19 pandemic, to poor family health and common child health problems (poor mental health, asthma, obesity) that are of significant burden to children, families and the health care system,
(2) identifying what promotes resilience in children and families experiencing social adversity, and
(3) designing and trialling scalable interventions for harder-to-reach and neglected cohorts such as fathers, families receiving child protection services, and those affected by family violence.
This research program is generating high-quality evidence to reduce health inequalities in socially disadvantaged children and break intergenerational cycles of poor family heath.
Top Publications
Fogarty, A, Woolhouse, H, Giallo, R, Wood, C, Kaufman, J, Brown, S.
Mothers’ Experiences of Parenting Within the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: Unique Challenges and Resilience.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
36(21-22)
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10564 -10587
2021
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Gartland, D, Conway, LJ, Giallo, R, Mensah, FK, Cook, F, Hegarty, K, Herrman, H, Nicholson, J, Reilly, S, Hiscock, H, et al.
Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
106(11)
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1066 -1074
2021
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Seymour, M, Peace, R, Wood, CE, Jillard, C, Evans, K, O'Brien, J, Williams, LA, Brown, S, Giallo, R.
“We’re in the background”: Facilitators and barriers to fathers’ engagement and participation in a health intervention during the early parenting period.
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
32(S2)
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78 -86
2021
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Brown, SJ, Gartland, D, Woolhouse, H, Giallo, R, McDonald, E, Seymour, M, Conway, L, FitzPatrick, KM, Cook, F, Papadopoullos, S, et al.
The maternal health study: Study design update for a prospective cohort of first‐time mothers and their firstborn children from birth to age ten.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
35(5)
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612 -625
2021
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Seymour, M.
The Health of Australian Fathers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Implications for Interventions and Support.
2021
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