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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
Establishing epigenetic evidence of the impact of a multi-component intervention to improve women’s health and infant’s health and development in rural Vietnam
O'Donnell, K. J., Fisher, J., Tran, T., Nguyen, T. & Ha, T. T. T.
31/07/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
MHIPC: Strengthening mental health capacity and service integration in primary postnatal care in Victoria
Rowe Murray, H., Fisher, J., Weller, C., Campbell, D., Craig, L., Meggetto, L. & Robertson, J.
1/07/19 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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
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
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
Research Output 1990 2020
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Community participation in health research: an ethnography from rural Swaziland
Brear, M. R., Hammarberg, K. & Fisher, J., 1 Feb 2020, In : Health Promotion International. 35, 1, p. e59-e69 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Efficacy of interpersonal psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Althobaiti, S., Kazantzis, N., Ofori-Asenso, R., Romero, L., Fisher, J., Mills, K. E. & Liew, D., Mar 2020, In : Journal of Affective Disorders. 264, p. 286-294 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Gender competence and mental health promotion
Fisher, J., 1 Feb 2020, In : World Psychiatry. 19, 1, p. 34-35 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
Open Access
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
Open Access
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Childbearing concerns, information needs and preferences of women with cystic fibrosis: An online discussion group
Holton, S., Fisher, J. R. W., Button, B., Williams, E. & Wilson, J., 1 Mar 2019, In : Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare. 19, p. 31-35 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Press / Media
Women with endometriosis need support, not judgement
Kate Young, Jane Rosamond Woodward Fisher & Maggie Kirkman
3/03/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature