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
Sutherland, G, Yelland, J, Brown, S.
Social inequalities in the organization of pregnancy care in a universally funded public health care system..
Matern Child Health J
16(2)
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288 -296
2012
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Woolhouse, H, Gartland, D, Hegarty, K, Donath, S, Brown, SJ.
Depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in the 12 months after childbirth: a prospective pregnancy cohort study..
BJOG
119(3)
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315 -323
2012
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Brown, SJ, Gartland, D, Donath, S, MacArthur, C.
Fecal incontinence during the first 12 months postpartum: complex causal pathways and implications for clinical practice..
Obstet Gynecol
119(2 Pt 1)
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240 -249
2012
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Hartley, S, Sutherland, G, Brown, S, Yelland, J.
'You're more likely to tell the GP if you're asked': women's views of care from general practitioners in the first postpartum year..
Aust J Prim Health
18(4)
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308 -312
2012
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Biro, MA, Sutherland, GA, Yelland, JS, Hardy, P, Brown, SJ.
In-hospital formula supplementation of breastfed babies: a population-based survey..
Birth
38(4)
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302 -310
2011
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