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
Gartland, D, Riggs, E, Giallo, R, Glover, K, Stowe, M, Mongta, S, Weetra, D, Brown, SJ.
Development of a multidimensional culturally and socially inclusive measure of factors that support resilience: Child Resilience Questionnaire-Child report (CRQ-C)—a community-based participatory research and psychometric testing study in Australia.
BMJ Open
12(9)
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e060229
2022
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Glover, K, Gartland, D, Leane, C, Nikolof, A, Weetra, D, Clark, Y, Giallo, R, Brown, SJ.
Development, acceptability and construct validity of the Aboriginal Women’s Experiences of Partner Violence Scale (AEPVS): a co-designed, multiphase study nested within an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander birth cohort.
BMJ Open
12(8)
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e059576
2022
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Giallo, R, Seymour, M, Treyvaud, K, Christensen, D, Cook, F, Feinberg, M, Brown, S, Cooklin, A.
Interparental Conflict Across the Early Parenting Period: Evidence From Fathers Participating in an Australian Population-Based Study.
Journal of Family Issues
43(7)
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1760 -1781
2022
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Savopoulos, P, Brown, S, Anderson, PJ, Gartland, D, Bryant, C, Giallo, R.
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community‐based mother and child cohort study.
Child Development
93(4)
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e396 -e411
2022
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Giallo, R, Seymour, M, Skinner, L, Fogarty, A, Field, K, Mead, J, Rimington, H, Galea, K, Talevski, T, Ruthven, C, et al.
Evaluation of home‐based Family Foundations targeting perinatal mental health and couple conflict in Australia.
Family Relations
71(3)
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1036 -1057
2022
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