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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

  • Riggs, E, Muyeen, S, Brown, S, Dawson, W, Petschel, P, Tardiff, W, Norman, F, Vanpraag, D, Szwarc, J, Yelland, J. Cultural safety and belonging for refugee background women attending group pregnancy care: An Australian qualitative study. Birth 44(2) : 145 -152 2017
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  • Middleton, P, Bubner, T, Glover, K, Rumbold, A, Weetra, D, Scheil, W, Brown, S. ‘Partnerships are crucial’: an evaluation of the Aboriginal Family Birthing Program in South Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 41(1) : 21 -26 2017
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  • Yelland, J, Biro, MA, Dawson, W, Riggs, E, Vanpraag, D, Wigg, K, Antonopoulos, J, Morgans, J, Szwarc, J, East, C, et al. Bridging the language gap: a co-designed quality improvement project to engage professional interpreters for women during labour. Australian Health Review 41(5) : 499 -504 2017
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  • Weetra, D, Glover, K, Buckskin, M, Kit, JA, Leane, C, Mitchell, A, Stuart-Butler, D, Turner, M, Yelland, J, Gartland, D, et al. Stressful events, social health issues and psychological distress in Aboriginal women having a baby in South Australia: implications for antenatal care. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 16(1) : 88 2016
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  • Gartland, D, Woolhouse, H, Giallo, R, McDonald, E, Hegarty, K, Mensah, F, Herrman, H, Brown, SJ. Vulnerability to intimate partner violence and poor mental health in the first 4-year postpartum among mothers reporting childhood abuse: an Australian pregnancy cohort study. Archives of Women's Mental Health 19(6) : 1091 -1100 2016
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