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.
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Giallo, R, Woolhouse, H, Gartland, D, Hiscock, H, Brown, S.
The emotional–behavioural functioning of children exposed to maternal depressive symptoms across pregnancy and early childhood: a prospective Australian pregnancy cohort study.
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
24(10)
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1233 -1244
2015
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Westrupp, EM, Rose, N, Nicholson, JM, Brown, SJ.
Exposure to Inter-Parental Conflict Across 10 Years of Childhood: Data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.
Maternal and Child Health Journal
19(9)
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1966 -1973
2015
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Patton, GC, Romaniuk, H, Spry, E, Coffey, C, Olsson, C, Doyle, LW, Oats, J, Hearps, S, Carlin, JB, Brown, S.
Prediction of perinatal depression from adolescence and before conception (VIHCS): 20-year prospective cohort study.
The Lancet
386(9996)
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875 -883
2015
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Yelland, J, Riggs, E, Small, R, Brown, S.
Maternity services are not meeting the needs of immigrant women of non-English speaking background: Results of two consecutive Australian population based studies.
Midwifery
31(7)
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664 -670
2015
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Brown, S, Gartland, D, Perlen, S, McDonald, E, MacArthur, C.
Consultation about urinary and faecal incontinence in the year after childbirth: a cohort study.
BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
122(7)
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954 -962
2015
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