Jane Fisher

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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

11 Active
36 Finished

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, T. H. 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

Latrobe Valley early parenting - What Were We Thinking

Fisher, J. & Rowe Murray, H.

4/06/18 → 30/08/20

Project: Consultancy

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.