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Biography
Jane Fisher, Professor of Global Health, is Director of Global and Women’s Health and Head, Co-Director Planetary Health Division, School of 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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Co-designed adaptation and evaluation of a structured program to prevent postnatal mental health problems for culturally and linguistically diverse families
Fisher, J., Tran, T., Rowe, H., Zeleke, B., Herrman, H. E., Rodrigues, M. L., Shaikh, A. & King, I.
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (trading as VicHealth) (Victoria), Orygen, Community Works Associates Pty Ltd
12/07/21 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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Ngalaiya Boorai Gabara Budbut - supporting the heads and hearts of children: Responsive mental health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents
Brown, N., Azzopardi, P. S., Rickwood, D. J., Pearson, O., Patton, G. C., Wenitong, M. & Fisher, J.
1/04/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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The Coronavirus in Victorian Healthcare and aged care workers (COVIC-HA) Cohort Study
Leder, K., Cheng, A., McGuinness, S., Zoungas, S., Hodgson, C., Fisher, J., Sim, M., Forbes, A., Cameron, P., Kirkman, M., Liew, D., Kasza, J., Teede, H., Smith, K., Kelsall, H., Russo, P., Udy, A., Hunter, P., Trauer, J., Russell, G. & Skouteris, H.
11/01/21 → 30/04/23
Project: Research
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F2F: Effects of the Black Summer Bushfires and program initiatives on health and wellbeing
Fisher, J., Rogers, B., Werbeloff, L., Brown, R. & Wilkinson, C.
1/01/21 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Clinician-level quality of care reports- dealing with the complex issue of outliers
Kirkman, M., Evans, S., Heathcote, P., Fisher, J., Millar, J., Mark, S., Currow, D. C., Frydenberg, M. & Khadra, M. H.
12/06/20 → 11/06/22
Project: Research
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Determinants of worse care for non-COVID-19 health or disability needs in Australia in the first month of COVID-19 restrictions: A national survey
Cicuttini, F. M., Tran, T. D., Hussain, S. M., Wluka, A. E., Fisher, J. R. W. & for the Monash COVID Restrictions Research Group, Jan 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Health and Social Care in the Community. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Economic Evaluations of Child Nutrition Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Quality Appraisal
Baek, Y., Ademi, Z., Paudel, S., Fisher, J., Tran, T., Romero, L. & Owen, A., Jan 2022, In: Advances in Nutrition. 13, 1, p. 282-317 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Impact of economic factors, social health and stressful life events on physical health-related quality of life trajectories in older Australians
Phyo, A. Z. Z., Gonzalez-Chica, D. A., Stocks, N. P., Woods, R. L., Fisher, J., Tran, T., Owen, A. J., Ward, S. A., Britt, C. J., Ryan, J., Freak-Poli, R. & on behalf of the ASPREE Study Group, May 2022, In: Quality of Life Research. 31, 5, p. 1321-1333 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Mental Health Outcomes in Australian Healthcare and Aged-Care Workers during the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
McGuinness, S. L., Johnson, J., Eades, O., Cameron, P. A., Forbes, A., Fisher, J., Grantham, K., Hodgson, C., Hunter, P., Kasza, J., Kelsall, H. L., Kirkman, M., Russell, G., Russo, P. L., Sim, M. R., Singh, K. P., Skouteris, H., Smith, K. L., Stuart, R. L., Teede, H. J. & 4 others, , 1 May 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19, 9, 15 p., 4951.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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‘They should come forward with the information': menopause-related health literacy and health care experiences among Vietnamese-born women in Melbourne, Australia
Stanzel, K. A., Hammarberg, K., Nguyen, T. & Fisher, J., 2022, In: Ethnicity & Health. 27, 3, p. 601-616 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Press / Media
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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