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Biography
Jane Fisher, Professor of Global Health, is Director of Global and Women’s Health and Head, Division of Social Sciences in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is an academic Clinical and Health Psychologist with longstanding interests in the social determinants of health, and healthcare participation. Her research has focused on gender-based risks to mental health and psychological functioning from adolescence to mid-life, in particular related to fertility, conception, pregnancy, the perinatal period and chronic non-communicable diseases; and on parenting capabilities and early childhood development in low- and high-income settings. She has completed major epidemiological studies in clinical and community settings in Australia, Vietnam and Nepal, nationally funded intervention trials, and has supervised more than 50 research higher degree and postgraduate coursework candidates to completion. She is an expert technical advisor to international agencies including the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund.
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Projects 2009 2021
Addressing an unrecognised public health problem in Vietnam: a clustered randomised controlled trial of the culturally adapted Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP-V) to improve adolescent mental health
Tran, T. D., Nguyen, H. T., Fisher, J. R. W., Shochet, I. M., Le, T. H. M. & Holton, S.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Latrobe Valley early parenting - What Were We Thinking
Fisher, J. R. W. & Rowe Murray, H. J.
4/06/18 → 30/08/20
Project: Consultancy
Learning clubs to improve women's health and infant's health and development in Vietnam: A cluster randomised controlled trial to inform transition to scale
Tran, T., Fisher, J. R. W., Luchters, S., Tran, T. D., Le, T. H. M., Nguyen, T., Tran, H., Biggs, B., Hanieh, S. & Duc Vinh, N.
1/01/18 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
Building the evidence base for ‘Safe Families’ - a comprehensive community-led model for violence prevention in Solomon Islands
Trembath, A., Fisher, J. R. W., Fulu, E., Lees, S., Dicker, K., Puiahi, D., Gosper, S. & Devries, K. M.
1/06/17 → 1/06/19
Project: Research
Family Planning Activity: Your Fertility
Hammarberg, K., Fisher, J. R. W. & McLachlan, P. R.
1/04/17 → 30/11/19
Project: Research
Research Output 1990 2018
Addressing multiple modifiable risks through structured community-based Learning Clubs to improve maternal and infant health and infant development in rural Vietnam: protocol for a parallel group cluster randomised controlled trial
Fisher, J., Tran, T., Luchters, S., Tran, T., Hipgrave, D., Hanieh, S., Ha, T. T. T., Simpson, J., Nguyen, T., Le, M. & Biggs, B-A., 2018, In : BMJ Open. 8, 13 p., e023539.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Community participation in research from resource-constrained countries: a scoping review
Brear, M., Hammarberg, K. & Fisher, J., Aug 2018, In : Health Promotion International. 33, 4, p. 723-733 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Co-morbid anaemia and stunting among children of pre-school age in low- and middle-income countries: a syndemic
Tran, T. D., Biggs, B-A., Holton, S., Nguyen, H. T. M., Hanieh, S. & Fisher, J., 24 Sep 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Public Health Nutrition. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Critical examination of evidence for the nutritional status of children in Papua New Guinea - a systematic review
McGlynn, P. J., Renzaho, A. M. N., Pham, M. D., Toole, M., Fisher, J. & Luchters, S., 1 Jan 2018, In : Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition. 27, 1, p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Effect of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes on symptoms of common mental disorders among women who are pregnant
Khatri, G. K., Tran, T. D., Baral, S. & Fisher, J., 1 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Affective Disorders. 228, p. 238-247 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review