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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

  • Glover, K, Buckskin, M, Ah Kit, J, Miller, R, Weetra, D, Gartland, D, Yelland, J, Brown, S. Aboriginal Families Study Policy Brief No. 1: Antenatal care. 2013
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  • Glover, K, Buckskin, M, Ah Kit, J, Miller, R, Weetra, D, Gartland, D, Yelland, J, Brown, S. Aboriginal Families Study Policy Brief No. 2: Social health issues in pregnancy. 2013
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  • Woolhouse, H, McDonald, E, Brown, S. Women’s experiences of sex and intimacy after childbirth: making the adjustment to motherhood. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology 33(4) : 185 -190 2012
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  • Willis, K, Small, R, Brown, S. Using documents to investigate links between implementation and sustainability in a complex community intervention: The PRISM study. Social Science & Medicine 75(7) : 1222 -1229 2012
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  • Gartland, D, Donath, S, MacArthur, C, Brown, S. The onset, recurrence and associated obstetric risk factors for urinary incontinence in the first 18 months after a first birth: an Australian nulliparous cohort study. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 119(11) : 1361 -1369 2012
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