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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

  • Gartland, D, Giallo, R, Woolhouse, H, Mensah, F, Brown, SJ. Intergenerational Impacts of Family Violence - Mothers and Children in a Large Prospective Pregnancy Cohort Study. EClinicalMedicine 15: 51 -61 2019
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  • Fogarty, A, Woolhouse, H, Giallo, R, Wood, C, Kaufman, J, Brown, S. Promoting resilience and wellbeing in children exposed to intimate partner violence: A qualitative study with mothers. Child Abuse & Neglect 95: 104039 2019
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  • Skinner, L, Gavidia-Payne, S, Brown, S, Giallo, R. Mechanisms Underlying Exposure to Partner Violence and Children’s Emotional-Behavioral Difficulties. Journal of Family Psychology 33(6) : 730 -741 2019
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  • Mulraney, M, Giallo, R, Efron, D, Brown, S, Nicholson, JM, Sciberras, E. Maternal postnatal mental health and offspring symptoms of ADHD at 8–9 years: pathways via parenting behavior. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 28(7) : 923 -932 2019
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  • Chamberlain, C, Gee, G, Brown, SJ, Atkinson, J, Herrman, H, Gartland, D, Glover, K, Clark, Y, Campbell, S, Mensah, FK, et al. Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future—co-designing perinatal strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents experiencing complex trauma: framework and protocol for a community-based participatory action research study. BMJ Open 9(6) : e028397 2019
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