Shelley Brown

Faculty Associate
Faculty Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences,
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
shelleyb@bu.edu
617-353-7576

Education

BA, Emory University; MPH, Boston University; PhD Student, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies – Global Governance and Human Security (University of Massachusetts)

Expertise

Human rights and health (focus on mental health); Health security; Healthcare access and equity

Biography

Shelley Brown is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Sargent College’s Department of Health Sciences, and her research focuses on the key linkages between health, human development and human rights, especially women’s mental health during the perinatal period.  She is currently involved in a number of research projects in the Southern United States and South Africa.

Shelley’s research is deeply interdisciplinary and engages the larger themes of health equity, global health governance, health systems and women’s health, utilizing both health systems data and qualitative research to inform proposed changes in policy and clinical practice. Research projects include health system responses to intimate partner violence in South Africa; translation of evidence-based policy into practice in low and middle income countries; unmet mental health and social service needs of formerly incarcerated women living with HIV in the Deep South; and constitutional obligation in South African to provide human-rights based mental health services in the perinatal period. She teaches courses in Global Health Governance and Non-Communicable Diseases.