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Role Group Leader / Snr Princ Research Fellow
Research area Population Health

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Professor Stephanie Brown is a social epidemiologist, health services researcher and Head of the Intergenerational Health Group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is Director of the Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence, Co-Convenor of the Aboriginal Health Program at MCRI and Honorary Professor in the Department of General Practice and Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

Stephanie has two decades of experience working at the interface of policy, health services and community to co-design and implement policy relevant epidemiological and intervention research focusing on the beginning of life, when change is most likely to lead to reduction of health inequalities across the life course. A major focus of her work is improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and families, women and children of refugee background and women and children experiencing family violence.
Professor Stephanie Brown is a social epidemiologist, health services researcher and Head of the Intergenerational Health Group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is Director of the Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence,...
Professor Stephanie Brown is a social epidemiologist, health services researcher and Head of the Intergenerational Health Group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is Director of the Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence, Co-Convenor of the Aboriginal Health Program at MCRI and Honorary Professor in the Department of General Practice and Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

Stephanie has two decades of experience working at the interface of policy, health services and community to co-design and implement policy relevant epidemiological and intervention research focusing on the beginning of life, when change is most likely to lead to reduction of health inequalities across the life course. A major focus of her work is improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and families, women and children of refugee background and women and children experiencing family violence.

Top Publications

  • Fogarty, A, Brown, S, Gartland, D, McMahon, G, FitzPatrick, K, Seymour, M, Kimber, M, MacMillan, H, Giallo, R. Patterns of intimate partner violence exposure across the first 10 years of life and children's emotional-behavioural outcomes at 10 years.. Child Abuse Negl 153: 106814 2024
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  • Mensah, FK, Glover, K, Leane, C, Gartland, D, Nikolof, A, Clark, Y, Gee, G, Brown, SJ. Understanding cannabis use and mental health difficulties in context with women's experiences of stressful events and social health issues in pregnancy: The Aboriginal Families Study.. Compr Psychiatry 131: 152455 2024
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  • FitzPatrick, KM, Brown, SJ, Hegarty, K, Mensah, FK, Gartland, D. Experiences of physical and emotional intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of prepandemic and pandemic data in a longitudinal study of Australian mothers.. BMJ Open 14(4) : e081382 2024
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  • Hearn, F, Brown, SJ, Szwarc, J, Toke, S, Alqas Alias, M, Essa, M, Hydari, S, Baget, A, Riggs, E. Perceptions and Experiences of Inequity for Women of Refugee Background Having a Baby during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Melbourne, Australia.. Int J Environ Res Public Health 21(4) : 2024
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  • Gibbs, J, Milroy, H, Mulder, S, Black, C, Lloyd-Johnsen, C, Brown, S, Gee, G. A Systematic Scoping Review of Indigenous People's Experience of Healing and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse.. Int J Environ Res Public Health 21(3) : 2024
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