{"id":23326,"date":"2013-05-07T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?post_type=profile&p=23326"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:12:39","slug":"shelley-m-brown-mph","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/shelley-m-brown-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelley M. Brown, PhD, MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shelley Brown, PhD, MPH is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences. Dr. Brown\u2019s research focuses on the key linkages between health, human development and human rights, especially women\u2019s mental health during the perinatal period. She is currently involved in a number of research projects in the United States and South Africa. Shelley\u2019s research is deeply interdisciplinary and engages the larger themes of health equity, global health, health systems and women\u2019s health, utilizing both health systems information and qualitative research to inform proposed changes in policy and clinical practice. Research projects include the implementation and promotion of perinatal mental health policies in practice, 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 the legal obligation in South African to provide human-rights based mental health services in the perinatal period. She is the inaugural director of Sargent\u2019s Service-Learning Program, and currently serves as the college’s Director of Global Community Engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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