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
Laslett, AL, Brown, S, Lumley, J.
Women's Views of Different Models of Antenatal Care in Victoria, Australia.
Birth
24(2)
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81 -89
1997
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Brown, S, Small, R, Lumley, J.
Being a ‘good mother’.
Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
15(2)
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185 -200
1997
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BROWN, S, LUMLEY, J.
The 1993 Survey of Recent Mothers: Issues in Survey Design, Analysis and Influencing Policy.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care
9(4)
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265 -275
1997
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Small, R, Brown, S, Lumley, J, Astbury, J.
Depression after childbirth.
The Medical Journal of Australia
161(8)
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473 -477
1994
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Astbury, J, Brown, S, Lumley, J, Small, R.
Birth events, birth experiences and social differences in postnatal depression.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
18(2)
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176 -184
1994
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