A Unique and Rigorous Data Platform for Depression Screening Research

Name: Jane R W Fisher

Degree(s): PhD

Institution: Monash University

Email: jane.fisher@monash.edu

Biography:

Jane Fisher, Finkel Professor of Global Health, is Director of Global and Women’s Health and Head, Division of Social Sciences in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University . 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 and intervention trials in clinical and community settings in Australia, and neighbouring countries in the Indo-Pacific region.