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, E, Olsson, CA, Hearps, SJC, Aarsman, S, Carlin, JB, Howard, LM, Moreno-Betancur, M, Romaniuk, H, Doyle, LW, Brown, S, et al.
The Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS): Study design of a preconception cohort from parent adolescence to offspring childhood..
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
34(1)
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86 -98
2020
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Moran, PS, Wuytack, F, Turner, M, Normand, C, Brown, S, Begley, C, Daly, D.
Economic burden of maternal morbidity - A systematic review of cost-of-illness studies..
PLoS One
15(1)
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e0227377
2020
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Chamberlain, C, Gee, G, Gartland, D, Mensah, FK, Mares, S, Clark, Y, Ralph, N, Atkinson, C, Hirvonen, T, McLachlan, H, et al.
Community Perspectives of Complex Trauma Assessment for Aboriginal Parents: 'Its Important, but How These Discussions Are Held Is Critical'..
Front Psychol
11:
2014
2020
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Borschmann, R, Molyneaux, E, Spry, E, Moran, P, Howard, LM, Macdonald, JA, Brown, SJ, Moreno-Betancur, M, Olsson, CA, Patton, GC.
Pre-conception self-harm, maternal mental health and mother-infant bonding problems: a 20-year prospective cohort study..
Psychol Med
49(16)
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2727 -2735
2019
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Brown, SJ, Gartland, D, Weetra, D, Leane, C, Francis, T, Mitchell, A, Glover, K.
Health care experiences and birth outcomes: Results of an Aboriginal birth cohort..
Women Birth
32(5)
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404 -411
2019
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