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
Biro, MA, Sutherland, G, Yelland, J, Brown, S.
Women's views and experiences of domiciliary postnatal care.
Women and Birth
24:
s11
2011
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Gartland, D, Hemphill, SA, Hegarty, K, Brown, SJ.
Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and the First Year Postpartum in an Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study.
Maternal and Child Health Journal
15(5)
:
570 -578
2011
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Brown, S, Gartland, D, Donath, S, MacArthur, C.
Effects of prolonged second stage, method of birth, timing of caesarean section and other obstetric risk factors on postnatal urinary incontinence: an Australian nulliparous cohort study.
BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
118(8)
:
991 -1000
2011
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Small, R, Taft, AJ, Brown, SJ.
The power of social connection and support in improving health: lessons from social support interventions with childbearing women.
BMC Public Health
11(Suppl 5)
:
s4
2011
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Yelland, J, Sutherland, G, Brown, SJ.
Postpartum anxiety, depression and social health: findings from a population-based survey of Australian women.
BMC Public Health
10(1)
:
771
2010
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