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Role Team Leader / Honorary Fellow Manager
Research area Population Health
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

  • Brown, SJ, Conway, LJ, FitzPatrick, KM, Hegarty, K, Mensah, FK, Papadopoullos, S, Woolhouse, H, Giallo, R, Gartland, D. Physical and mental health of women exposed to intimate partner violence in the 10 years after having their first child: an Australian prospective cohort study of first-time mothers. BMJ Open 10(12) : e040891 2020
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  • McMahon, GE, Anderson, PJ, Giallo, R, Pace, CC, Cheong, JL, Doyle, LW, Spittle, AJ, Spencer-Smith, MM, Treyvaud, K. Mental Health Trajectories of Fathers Following Very Preterm Birth: Associations With Parenting. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 45(7) : 725 -735 2020
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  • Cooklin, AR, Giallo, R, Bennetts, SK, Crawford, S, D’Esposito, F, Zubrick, SR, Hackworth, NJ, Matthews, J, Green, J, Nicholson, JM. Parental Fear about Children’s Safety When Independently Mobile: Development and Validation of Two Measures. Journal of Child and Family Studies 29(8) : 2246 -2256 2020
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  • Cook, F, Conway, LJ, Giallo, R, Gartland, D, Sciberras, E, Brown, S. Infant sleep and child mental health: a longitudinal investigation. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105(7) : 655 -660 2020
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  • Rushton, S, Giallo, R, Efron, D. ADHD and emotional engagement with school in the primary years: Investigating the role of student–teacher relationships. British Journal of Educational Psychology 90(S1) : 193 -209 2020
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