Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown

Sarah Stewart-Brown

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Chair of Public Health

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Mental Health & Wellbeing
Room B156
Medical School Building
Warwick Medical School
Gibbet Hill Campus
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 7657 4510
Fax: 024 7657 4879
Email: Sarah.Stewart-Brown@warwick.ac.uk

 

RESEARCH PROFILE


  • Measuring and monitoring mental health and wellbeing
  • Determinants of mental wellbeing
  • Interventions to promote mental health and wellbeing
  • Parenting and parenting programmes
  • Complementary and alternative therapies
  • Child Public Health

BACKGROUND


Sarah Stewart-Brown joined Warwick University in April 2003 as Professor of Public Health. Sarah was Director of the Health Science Research Institute from April 2006 until August 31st 2010 and is currenlty Chair of Public Health. Sarah studied medicine at the University of Oxford and at the Westminster Hospital in London. She worked in the National Health Service from 1974-1994 first as a paediatrician and subsequently as a Public Health doctor in London, Bristol and Worcester. She also held academic appointments at the Departments of Child Health, and of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Bristol. Before joining the Institute she was a Reader in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford where she directed the Health Services Research Unit.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • With putting embodied knowledge into practice, with Nicola Gale, Bham University, Funded by: ESRC, A follow up study of graduates from complementary and alternative medicine training courses, Project Start Date: 01/01/2012 Project End Date: 31/12/2014
  • A ramonised controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 'Families for Health', a family-based childhood obesity intervention delivered in a community setting for ages 7 to 11, with Wendy Robertson, Warwick Univeristy, Funded by: Health Technology Assessment Programme, Project Start Date: 01/01/2011 Project End Date: 01/12/2014
  • An evidence synthesis of interventions to prvent postnatal depression, with Marrell Jane, Nottingham University, Funded by: HTA, An evidence synthesis of interventions to prvent postnatal depression, Project Start Date: 01/09/2012 Project End Date: 01/11/2013
  • West Midlands Research Design Service Unit (RDSU), with Professor Nigel Stallard, Health Sciences Research Institute, Dr Nicholas R Parsons - Clinical Sciences Research Institute Dr Aileen Clarke - Health Sciences Research Institute Dr Tim Friede - Health Sciences Research Institute Dr Frances E Griffiths - Health Sciences Research Institute Mrs Gulnaz Iqbal - Health Sciences Research Institute Prof Sarah L Stewart-Brown - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), Project Start Date: 01/10/2008 Project End Date: 30/09/2013

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Tennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R., Platt, S., Joseph, S., Weich, S., Parkinson, J.,Secker, J., and Stewart-Brown, S. (2007) 'The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation' Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 5 (63), [article]
  • Stewart-Brown, S.L. (2006) 'What is the evidence on school health promotion in improving health or preventing disease and, specifically what is the effectiveness of the health promoting schools approach. . Copenhagen,', Editors: WHO Regional Office for Europe?s Health Evidence Network (HEN), Health Evidence Network report. [Report] [view]
  • Stewart-Brown S L, Fletcher L, Wadsworth M E (2005) 'Parent-child relationships and health problems in adulthood in three UK national birth cohort studies.' European Journal Of Public Health 15 (6), 640 - 646 [article]
  • Barlow J, Stewart-Brown S (2000) 'Behaviour problems and parent education programs ' Developmental And Behavioral Pediatrics 21 356 - 570
  • Stewart-Brown L, Layte R (1997) 'Emotional health problems are the most important cause of disability in adults of working age ' Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health 51 672 - 675

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