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
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:
771
2010
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Gartland, D, Brown, S, Donath, S, Perlen, S.
Women's health in early pregnancy: findings from an Australian nulliparous cohort study..
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol
50(5)
:
413 -418
2010
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Lansakara, N, Brown, SJ, Gartland, D.
Birth outcomes, postpartum health and primary care contacts of immigrant mothers in an Australian nulliparous pregnancy cohort study..
Matern Child Health J
14(5)
:
807 -816
2010
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Bandyopadhyay, M, Small, R, Watson, LF, Brown, S.
Life with a new baby: how do immigrant and Australian-born women's experiences compare?.
Aust N Z J Public Health
34(4)
:
412 -421
2010
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Brown, SJ, Donath, S, MacArthur, C, McDonald, EA, Krastev, AH.
Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women before and during pregnancy: prevalence, incidence, and associated risk factors..
Int Urogynecol J
21(2)
:
193 -202
2010
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