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Jane Fisher AO

Jane Fisher AO

Director of Global and Women’s Health, Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Monash University , Monash University
Jane Fisher, Professor of Global Health, is Director of Global and Women’s Health and 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. 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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