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
Gunn, J, Hegarty, K, Nagle, C, Forster, D, Brown, S, Lumley, J.
Putting WomanâCentered Care into Practice: A New (ANEW) Approach to Psychosocial Risk Assessment During Pregnancy.
Birth
33(1)
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46 -55
2006
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Watson, LF, Brown, SJ, Davey, M.
Use of periconceptional folic acid supplements in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
30(1)
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42 -49
2006
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Brown, SJ, Bruinsma, F.
Future directions for Victoria's public maternity services: is this "what women want"?.
Australian Health Review
30(1)
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56 -64
2006
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Davey, M-A, Brown, S, Bruinsma, F.
What Is It About Antenatal Continuity of Caregiver That Matters to Women?.
Birth
32(4)
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262 -271
2005
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Brown, SJ, Davey, M-A, Bruinsma, FJ.
Women's views and experiences of postnatal hospital care in the Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000.
Midwifery
21(2)
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109 -126
2005
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