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MCHR brings together a team of researchers with qualifications and experience in epidemiology, women's health policy, psychology, education, historical and social research, health economics, biomedical research, statistics, consumer advocacy, medicine, nursing and midwifery.

Associate Professor Stephanie Brown
BA (Hons) (Melbourne), PhD (Monash)

Principal Research Fellow and
VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow

email: stephanie.brown@latrobe.edu.au

Telephone: 03 8341 8565

Curriculum Vitae

Stephanie had a background in women's health policy and consumer advocacy before joining MCHR in 1991. She has had a major role in the conduct of three population-based surveys of recent mothers in Victoria, and is currently conducting a longitudinal study of women's health after childbirth. Her research has informed the development of maternity services at policy at state and commonwealth levels and achieved international standing in relation to the development of population-based methods for assessing women's views and experiences of maternity care, and investigation of maternal health after childbirth

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

The natural history of maternal physical and emotional health after childbirth and role of obstetric risk factors, outcomes of early obstetric discharge, and assessment of women's views and experiences of different models of maternity care

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CURRENT PROJECTS Maternal Health Study: a prospective cohort study of >1500 nulliparous women recruited in early pregnancy
Team:	Stephanie Brown, Ann Krastev, Ellie McDonald, Judith Lumley
Funding:	NHMRC 2002-2006, VicHealth 2002-2006 (Fellowship)
Status:	1515 women recruited; follow-up ongoing; coding, data entry and medical record review underway.

See: Maternal Health Study Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 200
Team:	Stephanie Brown, Fiona Bruinsma, Mary-Ann Davey
Funding:	Department of Human Services 1999-2001; VicHealth 2002-2006 (Fellowship)
Status:	Three summary reports published, eight papers and one book chapter published
See: Survey or Recent Mothers PRISM: Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers
Team:	Judith Lumley, Rhonda Small, Lyn Watson, Stephanie Brown, Creina Mitchell, Jane Gunn
Funding:	NHMRC 1997-2001 & 2002-2004, VicHealth grants for program resources and implementation 1998-2000, Victorian Department of Human Services Program Implementation grants 1998-2000, Felton Bequest grant 1998, Sydney Myer Fund grant 1999, beyondblue grant 2002, and participating municipalities’ contributions to program implementation and data collection
Status:	Four papers published, two year follow-up data coded and entered for analysis
See: PRISM ANEW: A new approach to supporting women in pregnancy
Team:	Kelsey Hegarty, Jane Gunn, Stephanie Brown, Della Forster, Julie Collette, Judith Lumley
Funding:	Victorian Department of Human Services 2001-2004
Status:	Final report completed, one paper published, one paper submitted
Top See: ANEW EPOCS: Evaluation of Practice and the Organisation of Care at Southern Health and Sandringham Hospitals
Team:	Jane Yelland, Stephanie Brown, Ann Krastev, Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Biro, Judith Lumley
Funding:	Victorian Department of Human Services 1999-2002
Status:	Three final reports published, one paper published, one paper submitted
See: EPOCS
PUBLICATIONS (Selected) Brown S, Lumley J, McDonald E, Krastev A. Maternal health study: a prospective cohort study of nulliparous women recruited in early pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2006;6:12 Lumley J, Watson L, Small R, Brown S, Mitchell C, Gunn J. PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers): a community-randomised trial to reduce depression and improve women’s physical health six months after birth. [ISRCTNO3464021] BMC Public Health 2006 6:37. Campbell S, Brown S. Maternity care with the Women’s Business Service at the Mildura Aboriginal Health Service. Aust NZ J Public Health 2004;28:376-382. Brown S, Bruinsma F, Darcy M-A, Small R, Lumley J. Early discharge: no evidence of adverse outcomes in three consecutive population-based Australian surveys of recent mothers conducted in 1989, 1994 and 2000. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2004, 18:202-13. Brown S, Darcy M-A, Bruinsma F. Having a baby in Victoria 1989-2000: continuity and change in the decade following the Victorian Review of Birthing Services. Aust N Z J Public Health 2002;26:242-250. Brown S, Small R, Faber B, Krastev A, Davis P. Early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants (Cochrane Review). The Cochrane Library, 2002, Issue 3, Oxford; Update Software. Dawson W, Brown S, Gunn J, McNair R, Lumley J. Sharing obstetric care: barriers to integrated systems of care. Aust NZ J Public Health 2000;24;399-404. Brown S, Lumley J. Do common physical health problems after childbirth contribute to maternal depression at 6-7 months postpartum? Br J Obstet Gynaecol 2000;107:1194-1201. Brown S, Lumley J. Changing childbirth: lessons from an Australian survey of 1336 women. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1998;105:143-55. Brown S, Lumley J. Maternal health after childbirth: results of an Australian population based survey. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1998;105:156-61. Top

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Last Updated: 10 August 2006