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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

  • Brown, S, Darcy, M, Bruinsma, F. Having a baby in Victoria 1989–2000: continuity and change in the decade following the Victorian Ministerial Review of Birthing Services. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 26(3) : 242 -250 2002
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  • Brown, S, Small, R, Argus, B, Davis, PG, Krastev, A. Early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews cd002958 2002
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  • Waldenström, U, McLachlan, H, Forster, D, Brennecke, S, Brown, S. Team midwife care: maternal and infant outcomes. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 41(3) : 257 -264 2001
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  • Brown, S, Lumley, J. Physical health problems after childbirth and maternal depression at six to seven months postpartum. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 107(10) : 1194 -1201 2000
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  • Waldenström, U, Brown, S, McLachlan, H, Forster, D, Brennecke, S. Does Team Midwife Care Increase Satisfaction with Antenatal, Intrapartum, and Postpartum Care? A Randomized Controlled Trial. Birth 27(3) : 156 -167 2000
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