Jane Fisher
Monash University
Jane Fisher
I am an academic Clinical and Health Psychologist and Finkel Professor of Global Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I leads the multidisciplinary Global and Women’s Health group of academics, research higher degree students and professional staff who undertake research in Australia and low- and middle-income countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
I was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia in 2019 for my contributions to women, mental health and the community. In 2022 I was awarded the International Marcé Society’s John Cox Medal for having made an extraordinary contribution to expert knowledge in the field of perinatal mental health through research, clinical practice, teaching, and mentorship. I was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2024.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Australia; Vietnam; |
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| Topics | Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Gender and care; Perinatal mental health; Survey measures; Unmet needs; |
| Methods | Measure validation; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Trials and other evaluations; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Global Perinatal Mental Health; |
| Website | https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/units/global-and-womens-health |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-1959-6807 |
| Research interests | I have longstanding interests in the social determinants, including gender-based risks, to the health and wellbeing of women and girls across the life course and of how these can be addressed in public health approaches to mental health promotion. My research has demonstrated that differences in the prevalence of mental health problems experienced by women between countries reflect differences in gender inequality indices and that gender-informed interventions are effective in prevention of mental health problems.
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| Key publications | FISHER J, Stanzel K, Nguyen H, Thean P, French D, Popplestone S, Tran T. Impact of a private sector residential early parenting program on clinically significant postnatal depressive symptoms experienced by women: Audit of routinely collected data. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2024. DOI: 10.1111/acps.13668 Tran TD, Nguyen H, Shochet I, Nguyen N, La N, Wurfl A, Orr J, Nguyen H, Stocker R, FISHER J. School-based universal mental health promotion intervention for adolescents in Vietnam: two-arm, parallel, controlled trial. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health. 2023;10:E69. DOI:10.1017/gmh.2023.66 FISHER J, Tran TD, Tran H, Luchters S, Hipgrave D, Nguyen H, Tran Th, Hanieh S, Simpson J, Biggs BA, Tran T. Structured, multicomponent, community-based programme for women’s health and infant health and development in rural Vietnam: a parallel-group cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 2023; 7(5):311-325. Honda T, Tran T, Draper C, Yousafzai A, Popplestone S, Romero L, FISHER J. Parents’ mental health and the social-emotional development of their children aged between 24 and 59 months in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Social Science and Medicine Mental Health. 2023;3:100197. DOI:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100197 Ree S and FISHER J. Forced Migration, Trauma, and risk of Mental Health problems among Women in the Perinatal Period. The Lancet Public Health. 2023;8(3):E166-E167. DOI:10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00009-9 DOI:10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00032-9 |