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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

  • Fogarty, A, Brown, SJ, Gartland, D, Mensah, F, FitzPatrick, KM, Giallo, R. Mental health trajectories of women experiencing differing patterns of intimate partner violence across the first 10 years of motherhood. Psychiatry Research 325: 115261 2023
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  • Giallo, R, Fogarty, A, Seymour, M, Skinner, L, Savopoulos, P, Bereznicki, A, Talevski, T, Ruthven, C, Bladon, S, Goldfeld, S, et al. Family Foundations To promote parent mental health and family functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A mixed methods evaluation. Journal of Family Studies 29(3) : 1002 -1021 2023
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  • Hannon, S, Gartland, D, Higgins, A, Brown, SJ, Carroll, M, Begley, C, Daly, D. Physical health and comorbid anxiety and depression across the first year postpartum in Ireland (MAMMI study): A longitudinal population-based study. Journal of Affective Disorders 328: 228 -237 2023
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  • FitzPatrick, KM, Brown, SJ, Hegarty, K, Mensah, F, Gartland, D. Timing of Physical and Emotional Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Women's Health in an Australian Longitudinal Cohort Study.. Violence Against Women 10778012221147904 2023
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  • FitzPatrick, KM, Brown, S, Hegarty, K, Mensah, F, Gartland, D. Visualising Patterns in Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in the First 10 years of Motherhood. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 38(3-4) : 3055 -3087 2023
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