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A/PROF JANE R.W. FISHER



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (KCWH)
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Work: 03 8344 0687
Fax: 03 9347 9824
Room: 205
Level: 02
Building: 723 Swanston St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science The University of Queensland 01-Jan-1973
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 01-Jan-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Psychological Society Member 01-Jan-1977
Registered Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria Registered Psychologist 01-Jan-1977
Member College of Clinical Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society Member 01-Jan-1989
Registered Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria Registered Specialist Clinical Psychologist 01-Jan-1994

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member, Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Niles Newton Award (inaugural) International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology 01-Jan-1995
Prize Roger Wurm Prize, Australian Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology 01-Jan-1994
Other (Award) Marce Society Bursary 01-Jan-1992
Scholarship VicHealth Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarship 01-Jan-1992
Other (Award) Australian Society for the Psychosomatic Aspects of Reproductive Medicine Organon Junior Fellowship and ASPARM Travelling Award, 01-Jan-1991
Scholarship Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship 01-Jan-1989
Scholarship Commonwealth Tertiarty Scholarship 01-Jan-1971
Prize Fertility Society of Australia The most important contribution to psychosocial aspects of assisted reproductive technology treatment 01-Jan-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Determinants and health outcomes of mothers' return to paid work in the first postpartum year Principal Supervisor NHMRC Public Health Postgraduate Scholarships 01/01/2004
Australian women's childbearing decisions: the role of gender beliefs, psychosocial and health factors Principal Supervisor VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION Public Health PhD Research Scholarships 01/01/2005
IMPROVING MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH IN VIETNAM Chief Investigator THE MYER FOUNDATION Arts and Humanities Grants 26/07/2005
MALE INFERTILITY: THE LONG TERM PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES FOR MEN AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS Chief Investigator ANDROLOGY AUST Projects 2004-05 01/07/2006
The effects of an early parenting intervention on maternal mood and infant behavior disorders Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
AGE AT FIRST BIRTH, MODE OF CONCEPTION AND ADJUSTMENT TO PARENTHOOD Chief Investigator MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
Maternal mental health and anaemia as determinants of infant health and development in resource constrained settings Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Breast cancer and fertility: Contributing to General Practitioners; management and support of their patients Chief Investigator HELEN MACPHERSON SMITH TRUST Research Grants 17/07/2009
INFANT SLEEP AND SETTLING STRATEGIES: ADDRESSING CONTROVERSIES AND EVALUATING EVIDENCE TO INFORM A UNIVERSAL PREVENTION TRIAL Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH Seed Funding 12/08/2009
...WHAT WERE WE THINKING! DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A WEBSITE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION IN PARENTS OF NEWBORNS Chief Investigator JACK BROCKHOFF FOUNDATION Research Grant

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
EARLY CHILDHOOD: INVEST TO GROW, ESTABLISHED AND DEVELOPING PROGRAMS 2004-2008 Chief Investigator DEPT OF FAMILIES HOUSING COMMUNITY SERVICES & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS 30/06/2005
ADOLESCENT HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT AFTER IVF Chief Investigator MELBOURNE IVF 23/08/2006
AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP AWARDS FELLOWSHIP MENTAL HEALTH VIETNAM - DR TRAN TUAN Chief Investigator AUSAID 16/07/2007

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
KOORI MATERNITY SERVICES DATA EXPLORATION PROJECT Chief Investigator UMEE LTD

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Awarded a NHMRC Public Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in January 1994 .

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Brief behavioural inervention for infant sleep problems reduces depression in mothers
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Evidence - Based Mental Health
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 46
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  • Consumers views on the use of diagnostic labels to describe psychological distress in the postpartum: implications for health care
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian Journal of Primary Health
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 9-16
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  • The role of traditional confinement practices in determining postpartum depression in women in Chinese cultures: A systematic review of the English language evidence
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 116
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 161-169
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  • Women who are well informed about prenatal genetic screening delay emotional attachment to their fetus
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 34-41
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Reports

  • Mental Health Aspects of Womens Reproductive Health. A global review of the literature.
    Year: 2009
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Antenatal mood and fetal attachment after assisted conception


     


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fertility and Sterility
    Volume: 89
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1103-12
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  • Women and technologies of reproduction. Editor's Introduction.


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 241-248
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  • Assessing the health and development of ART conceived young adults: A study of feasibility, parent recall, and acceptability.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Reproductive Health Matters
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 7
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  • Explaining obstetric interventionism: Technical Skills, common conceptualisations, or collective countertransference?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 370-277
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  • Psychological and social aspects of pregnancy, childbirth an early parenting after assisted conception: a systematic review
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Human Reproduction Update
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 395-414
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  • The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Detects but does not distinguish anxiety disorders from depression in mothers or infants
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Archives of Women's Mental Health
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 103-108
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  • Women's experience of childbirth and postnatal healthcare after assisted conception
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Human Reproduction
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1567-73
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Reports

  • Report on the Koori Maternity Services Data Exploration Project
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Statewide Outcomes for Children Branch of the Victorian Government Office for Children
    Publisher: Department of Human Services (Melbourne)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Reports

  • Maternal mental health and child survival, health and development in resource-constrained settings: essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals


    Year: 2007
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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  • Report of UNFPA - WHO International Expert Meeting: The interface between reproductive health and mental health. Maternal mental health and child health and development in resource constrained settings
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Maternal mental health and infant health and development
    Year: 2006
    Event name: National Pediatrics Association Conferences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the National Pediatrics Association
    Page numbers: 14-20
    Publisher: National Pediatrics Association(Hanoi)
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Reports

  • Report of the Strategic Review of the Research and Training Centre for Community Development’s Progress on Mental Health Care Development in Vietnam


    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Research and Training Centre for Community Development(Hanoi)
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  • Mental health: a vital consideration in assuring safe motherhood and newborn health
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 2
    Publisher: Lives: Newsletter of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Mental Health
    Year: 2005
    Book: Women's Health: A Handbook
    Publisher: Elsevier Australia(Marrickville)
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Journal Articles

  • Assisted conception is a risk factor for postnatal mood disturbance and early parenting difficulties
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Fertility and Sterility
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 426-430
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Burden of infertility (BIT) scale - a useful measure of degree of difficulty to conceive
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Fertility
    Volume: Spring
    Page numbers: 4-5
    Publisher: Nursing Journal
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  • Early parenting difficulties: Implications for health service policies.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Health Issues
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 18-21
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Reports

  • Building an evidence base for practice in early parenting centres. A systematic review of the literature and a report of an outcome study


    Year: 2005
    Customer: Tweddle Child and Family Health Services
    Publisher: Tweddle Child and Family Health Services(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Difficult infant temperament or infant exhaustion?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Psychology
    Volume: 56 (Suppl)
    Page numbers: S11-S12
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  • Prevalence, nature, severity and correlates of postpartum depressive symptoms in Vietnam.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: BJOG
    Volume: 111
    Page numbers: 1353-1360
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Temperament and behaviour of infants aged 4-12 months on admission to a private mother-baby unit and at 1- and 6-month follow-up.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical Psychologist
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-21
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Brisbane)
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  • Treatment of maternal mood disorder an infant behaviour disturbance in an Australian private mothercraft unit: a follow-up study.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Archives of Women's Mental Health
    Volume: 7
    Issue: Suppl.1
    Page numbers: 89-93
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wein(Vienna)
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Reports

  • Building an evidence base for practice in early planning centres: A systematic review of the literature and a report of an outcome study
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Tweddle Child and Family Health Services(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Maternal perinatal mental health and multiple births: Implications for practice
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Twin Research
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 506-513
    Publisher: Australian Academic Press(Bowen Hills)
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Reports

  • Review of the links between physical infrastructure and evidence based maternity care for the planning of a new maternity hospital, Melbourne, Royal Women's Hospital
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Royal Women's Hospital(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Baby friendly hospital practices: Cesarean section is a persistent barrier to early initiation of breastfeeding
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Birth - Issues in Perinatal Care
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 124-131
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Book Review of Kirkham, M The Midwife-Mother Relationship
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Birth - Issues in Perinatal Care
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 75-76
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Difficult deliveries, disenfranchised grief, and delayed trauma reactions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Meridian
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 39-57
    Publisher: La Trobe University Department of English
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  • Health and social circumstances of women admitted to a private mother baby unit
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 966-973
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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  • Nature, severity and correlates of psychological distress in women admitted to a private mother-baby unit
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 140-145
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Reports

  • Review of the Hume Region Antenatal Risk Assessment Project


    Year: 2002
    Customer: Wodonga Regional Health Service
    Publisher: Department of Human Services (Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Operative intervention in delivery is associated with compromised early mother-infant interaction
    Year: 2001
    Journal: British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 1068-1075
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Psychological issues and postnatal distress
    Year: 2001
    Event name: ALCA 2000
    Conference Publication: Proceedings 5th Biennial conference of the Australian Lactation Consultants' Association
    Page numbers: 57-60
    Publisher: Australian Lactation Consultants' Association(Melbourne)
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