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
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)
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3055 -3087
2023
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Navodani, T, Gartland, D, Brown, SJ, Riggs, E, Yelland, J.
Common maternal health problems among Australian-born and migrant women: A prospective cohort study.
PLOS ONE
14(2)
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e0211685
2023
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Chamberlain, C, Gee, G, Harfield, S, Campbell, S, Brennan, S, Clark, Y, Mensah, F, Arabena, K, Herrman, H, Brown, S.
Parenting after a history of childhood maltreatment: A scoping review and map of evidence in the perinatal period.
PLOS ONE
14(3)
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e0213460
2023
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