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Professor Alex Brown is an Aboriginal medical doctor and researcher. He grew up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW) with family connections to Nowra, Wreck Bay and Wallaga Lake on the far south coast of NSW.
Alex trained in medicine at the University of Newcastle, before working in hospitals on the central coast on NSW. He subsequently travelled overseas to complete a Master of Public Health and returned to Australia to begin work in Alice Springs, where he spent the last 13 years.
Alex first managed the local Centre for Disease Control in Alice Springs, controlling outbreaks of disease, immunisation programs and the surveillance of disease, before starting in research for the Menzies School of Health Research. In 2007 he was appointed to set up a research program in Central Australia with Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, with a focus on heart disease and diabetes in Aboriginal people. During this time, Alex commenced and completed his PhD on depression and heart disease in Aboriginal men.
Over this time, Alex has established an extensive and unique research program focused on chronic disease in vulnerable communities, with a particular focus on outlining and overcoming health disparities. He leads projects encompassing epidemiology, psychosocial determinants of chronic disease, mixed methods health services research in Aboriginal primary care and hospital settings, and randomised controlled trials of pharmacological and non-pharmacological chronic disease interventions.
Alex has been involved in policy since he commenced as a doctor. He has been heavily involved in engaging government and lead agencies in setting the agenda in Aboriginal cardiovascular disease management and control and chronic disease policy more broadly. He sits on a range of national committees, including the Heart Foundation, chairs the Cardiac Society Indigenous Cardiovascular Council and was a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality Council (2009-2012).
In July 2012, Alex joined SAHMRI to lead Aboriginal health research.
In November 2012, Alex was awarded the prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship to further his research into the impacts of psychosocial determinants on cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal communities.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Queensland
… → Jun 2010
Masters, Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Sep 1998 → Sep 1999
Bachelor's Degree, University of Newcastle
1990 → 1995
External positions
Professor of Aboriginal Health, University of Adelaide
4 Mar 2019 → …Honorary Senior Principal Research Fellow, Charles Perkins Centre
12 Nov 2018 → …Keywords
- R Medicine (General)
- Aboriginal health
- Cardiology
- Diabetes
- Biopsychosocial
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
- Health Services
- epidemiology
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Research Output
Cord blood metabolic markers are strong mediators of the effect of maternal adiposity on fetal growth in pregnancies across the glucose tolerance spectrum: the PANDORA study
PANDORA study team, 8 Jan 2020, In : Diabetologia.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Long QT Syndrome Type 1 in an Australian Indigenous Patient
Ganesan, A. N., Vanoye, C. G., Alam, F., Waddell-Smith, K. E., McGavigan, A. D., Correnti, G., Haan, E., Brown, A., Vandenberg, J. I. & George, Jr., A. L., 2 Jan 2020, In : Circ Genom Precis Med.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Performance of cardiovascular risk prediction equations in Indigenous Australians
Barr, E. L. M., Barzi, F., Rohit, A., Cunningham, J., Tatipata, S., McDermott, R., Hoy, W. E., Wang, Z., Bradshaw, P. J., Dimer, L., Thompson, P. L., Brimblecombe, J., O'Dea, K., Connors, C., Burgess, P., Guthridge, S., Brown, A., Cass, A., Shaw, J. E. & Maple-Brown, L., 16 Jan 2020, In : Heart.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Primary health care for aboriginal australian women in remote communities after a pregnancy with hyperglycaemia
Wood, A., Mackay, D., Fitzsimmons, D., Derkenne, R., Kirkham, R., Boyle, J. A., Connors, C., Whitbread, C., Welsh, A., Brown, A., Shaw, J. E. & Maple-Brown, L., 1 Feb 2020, In : International journal of environmental research and public health. 17, 3, 720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Citation
(Scopus)
Social and economic factors, maternal behaviours in pregnancy and neonatal adiposity in the PANDORA cohort
Longmore, D. K., Barr, E. L. M., Barzi, F., Lee, I. L., Kirkwood, M., Connors, C., Boyle, J., O'Dea, K., Zimmet, P., Oats, J., Catalano, P., McIntyre, H. D., Brown, A., Shaw, J. E. & Maple-Brown, L. J., 1 Mar 2020, In : Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 161, p. 108028 108028.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities
- 3 Oral presentation
Prevalence and Treatment Coverage Rates for Refractive Error among Aboriginal Australians
Jose J. Estevez (Speaker), Natasha Howard (Author), Alex Brown (Author)27 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Disparities in breast screening, stage at diagnosis, cancer treatment and the subsequent risk of cancer death: A retrospective, matched cohort of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women with breast cancer
David Banham (Author), David Roder (Author), Marion Eckert (Author), Natasha Howard (Author), Karla Canuto (Author), Sandra Miller (Speaker), Alex brown Brown (Author)17 Sep 2019 → 19 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Cancer treatment and the risk of cancer death among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians: Analysis of a matched cohort study
David Banham (Author), David Roder (Author), Dorothy Keefe (Author), Gelareh Farshid (Author), Marion Eckert (Author), Karla Canuto (Speaker), Natasha Howard (Author), Alex Brown (Author)17 Sep 2019 → 19 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation