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
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)
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333 -334
2020
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Hiscock, H, Connolly, A, 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.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
56(7)
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1114 -1120
2020
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Cook, F, Conway, LJ, Giallo, R, Gartland, D, Sciberras, E, Brown, S.
Infant sleep and child mental health: a longitudinal investigation.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
105(7)
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655 -660
2020
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Riggs, E, Yelland, J, Szwarc, J, Duell-Piening, P, Wahidi, S, Fouladi, F, Casey, S, Chesters, D, Brown, S.
Afghan families and health professionals’ access to health information during and after pregnancy.
Women and Birth
33(3)
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e209 -e215
2020
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