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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

  • Hegarty, K, Valpied, J, Taft, A, Brown, SJ, Gold, L, Gunn, J, O'Doherty, L. Two-year follow up of a cluster randomised controlled trial for women experiencing intimate partner violence: effect of screening and family doctor-delivered counselling on quality of life, mental and physical health and abuse exposure.. BMJ Open 10(12) : e034295 2020
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  • Hiscock, H, Connolly, A-S, Dunlop, K, Perera, P, O'Loughlin, R, Brown, SJ, Krieser, DM, West, A, Chapman, P, Lawford, R, et al. Understanding parent-reported factors that influence children and young people's anxiety and depression presentations to emergency departments: A multi-site study.. Emerg Med Australas 32(5) : 724 -730 2020
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  • Spry, EA, Wilson, CA, Middleton, M, Moreno-Betancur, M, Doyle, LW, Howard, LM, Hannan, AJ, Wlodek, ME, Cheong, JL, Hines, LA, et al. Parental mental health before and during pregnancy and offspring birth outcomes: A 20-year preconception cohort of maternal and paternal exposure.. EClinicalMedicine 27: 100564 2020
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  • Brown, S. Perinatal mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic.. World Psychiatry 19(3) : 333 -334 2020
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  • Hiscock, H, Connolly, A-S, Dunlop, K, Perera, P, O'Loughlin, R, Brown, SJ, Krieser, DM, West, A, Chapman, P, Lawford, R, et al. Parent perspectives on children and young people's mental health services in Victoria - What's wrong and how to fix it: A multi-site qualitative study.. J Paediatr Child Health 56(7) : 1114 -1120 2020
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