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Joyce Browne

Associate Professor

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Biography

Joyce Browne is a medical doctor and epidemiologist. The continuing global inequities in reproductive, maternal and perinatal health are the driving force behind her research and professional interests.

Her work focuses on global maternal health research, health equity and equitable partnerships in global health, research capacity building in low- and middle-income countries and education in global and planetary health. 

She currently is an Associate Professor Global Health / Epidemiology at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

In addition, she holds the following positions:

  • Chair of the Dutch Knowledge Center on Global Health (www.kgch.nl)
  • Supervisory board member and vice-Chair (RvT) of Simavi
  • Member of the scientific committee of Action on Preeclampsia Ghana (APECGH)
  • Deputy editor for the World Heart Federation's scientific journal Global Heart
  • Member of Advisory Board EKANN, expert center for health of refugee children in the Netherlands
  • Member of the UMC Utrecht Internationalization Committee
  • Member of the UU Global Engagement committee
  • Vice-chair of the organizing committee of the 2023 European Congres on Global Health (ECTMIH) that will take place in Utrecht in 2023 (www.ectmih2023.nl). 

Research groups

Global maternal health

Research aim

The global maternal health group contributes through research, education and healthcare to better health outcomes for mothers and their infants worldwide.

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Health equity

Research aim

This research group aims to contribute to health equity from an ethical and epidemiological perspective. We identify and explain health inequalities and ethically evaluate whether identified health inequalities also lead to health inequity.

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Recent publications

Predicting complications in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy Klaartje M. Olde Loohuis, Kim Luijken, Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Diederick E. Grobbee, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Emmanuel Srofenyoh, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Joyce L. Browne
AJOG Global Reports, 2025, vol. 5
Training refugee and asylum seeking healthcare professionals Aisha Awan, Joyce L. Browne, Abdelnasser Ibrahim, Ceri Butler, Aaron Drovandi
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2025, vol. 388
Key tips to shift student perspectives through transformative learning in medical education Efraim J. Hart, Merel H. de Heer-Koster, Maria van der Harst, Joyce L. Browne, Fedde Scheele
BMC Medical Education, 2025, vol. 25
Health needs of older people and age-inclusive health care in humanitarian emergencies in low-income and middle-income countries Elburg van Boetzelaer, Lekha Rathod, Patrick Keating, Umberto Pellecchia, Sunita Sharma, Jason Nickerson, Judith van de Kamp, Oscar H. Franco, James Smith, Favila Escobio, Joyce L. Browne
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2024, vol. 6
Collective knowledge exchange through regional hubs Camilla Alay Llamas, Renzo Guinto, Julia Addison, Nazmul Alam, Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Vicente Artola Arita, Noa Kolpa, Juliette Mattijsen, Ying Zhang, George S. Downward, Joyce L. Browne
Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2024, vol. 29, p.849-855
Development and validation of a prognostic model to predict birth weight John Allotey, Lucinda Archer, Kym I E Snell, Dyuti Coomar, Jacques Massé, Line Sletner, Hans Wolf, George Daskalakis, Shigeru Saito, Wessel Ganzevoort, Akihide Ohkuchi, Hema Mistry, Diane Farrar, Fionnuala Mone, Jun Zhang, Paul T Seed, Helena Teede, Fabricio Da Silva Costa, Athena P Souka, Melanie Smuk, Sergio Ferrazzani, Silvia Salvi, Federico Prefumo, Rinat Gabbay-Benziv, Chie Nagata, Satoru Takeda, Evan Sequeira, Olav Lapaire, Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Rachel Katherine Morris, Ahmet A Baschat, Kjell Salvesen, Luc Smits, Dewi Anggraini, Alice Rumbold, Marleen van Gelder, Arri Coomarasamy, John Kingdom, Seppo Heinonen, Asma Khalil, François Goffinet, Sadia Haqnawaz, Javier Zamora, Richard D Riley, Shakila Thangaratinam, Alex Kwong, Ary I Savitri, Joyce L Browne, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Emily C Kleinrouweler,
BMJ medicine, 2024, vol. 3