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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 2024
Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND): Prevention and Detection
Mishra, G., Hickey, M., Dobson, A. J., Gannon, B., Doust, J., Fisher, J., Cicuttini, F., Huxley, R., Tooth, L. & Brown, H.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/05/19 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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., Nguyen, H. T., Fisher, J., Shochet, I. M., Le, M. & Holton, S.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Refugee women, intimate partner violence and settlement: The first cohort study
Rees, S., Fisher, J. & Steel, Z.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity and Associated Depression and Anxiety
Hiscock, H., Jorm, A. F., Goldfeld, S., Fisher, J., Eastwood, J., Reupert, A., Sanci, L. A., Yap, M., Dalziel, K. M. & Eapen, V.
1/11/18 → 31/10/23
Project: Research
Research Output 1990 2019
Assistance for parents with unsettled infants in Central Vietnam: a qualitative investigation of health professionals' perspectives
Murray, L., Tran, T., Van Thang, V., McDonald, N., Beggs, S. & Fisher, J., 20 May 2019, In : BMC Pediatrics. 19, 1, 10 p., 160.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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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., 1 Jan 2019, In : Public Health Nutrition. 22, 1, p. 35-43 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Informal mental health interventions for people with severe mental illness in low and lower middle-income countries: A systematic review of effectiveness
Nguyen, T., Holton, S., Tran, T. & Fisher, J., 1 Jan 2019, In : International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 65, 3, p. 194–206 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Mental health trajectories among women in Australia as they age
Tran, T., Hammarberg, K., Ryan, J., Lowthian, J., Freak-Poli, R., Owen, A., Kirkman, M., Curtis, A., Rowe, H., Brown, H., Ward, S., Britt, C. & Fisher, J., 2019, In : Aging and Mental Health. 23, 7, p. 887-896 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
More than depression: A multi-dimensional assessment of postpartum distress symptoms before and after a residential early parenting program
Wilson, N., Wynter, K., Anderson, C., Rajaratnam, S. M. W., Fisher, J. & Bei, B., 29 Jan 2019, In : BMC Psychiatry. 19, 1, 11 p., 48.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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Press / Media
Women with endometriosis need support, not judgement
Kate Young, Jane Fisher & Maggie Kirkman
3/03/15
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature