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, S, Gartland, D, Mensah, F, Seymour, M, Savopoulos, P, FitzPatrick, K, Papadopoullos, S, Giallo, R.
Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
International Journal of Behavioral Development
46(4)
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308 -319
2022
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FitzPatrick, K, Gartland, D, Fogarty, A, Brown, S.
Mothers’ and Young People’s Study Policy Brief #5: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers’ mental health and wellbeing.
2022
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Hannon, S, Gartland, D, Higgins, A, Brown, SJ, Carroll, M, Begley, C, Daly, D.
Maternal mental health in the first year postpartum in a large Irish population cohort: the MAMMI study.
Archives of Women's Mental Health
25(3)
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641 -653
2022
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Gartland, D, Riggs, E, Giallo, R, Glover, K, Stowe, M, Mongta, S, Weetra, D, Brown, SJ, Herman, H, Hegarty, K, et al.
Development and validation of a multidimensional, culturally and socially inclusive Child Resilience Questionnaire (parent/caregiver report) to measure factors that support resilience: a community-based participatory research and psychometric testing study in Australia.
BMJ Open
12(6)
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e061129
2022
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Giallo, R, Williams, LA, Seymour, M, Jillard, C, Peace, R, O’Brien, J, Evans, K, Brown, S, Wood, C.
‘Working Out Dads’ to promote men’s mental and physical health in early fatherhood: A mixed-methods evaluation.
Journal of Family Studies
28(2)
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438 -459
2022
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