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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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Global Cardiovascular Health

Research aim

To study cardiovascular risk factors and health outcomes; and develop, implement and scale-up cost-efficient approaches for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease to promote equity in cardiovascular health globally
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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

Co-creation of a toolkit to assist risk communication and clinical decision-making in severe preeclampsia Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Bregje C. De Kok, Linda Lucy Yevoo, Klaartje M. Olde Loohuis, Emmanuel K. Srofenyoh, Daniel K. Arhinful, Koiwah Koi-Larbi, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Joyce L. Browne
Global Health Action, 2024, vol. 17
Global inequities in adverse pregnancy outcomes James M. Roberts, Seye Abimbola, Tracy L. Bale, Aluisio Barros, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Joyce L. Browne, Ann C. Celi, Polite Dube, Cornelia R. Graves, Marieke J. Hollestelle, Scarlett Hopkins, Ali Khashan, Koiwah Koi-Larbi, Eve Lackritz, Leslie Myatt, Christopher W.G. Redman, Özge Tunçalp, Sten H. Vermund, Michael G. Gravett
AJOG Global Reports, 2024, vol. 4
Involving older people in the preparedness, response, and recovery phases in humanitarian emergencies Elburg van Boetzelaer, Judith van de Kamp, Patrick Keating, Sunita Sharma, Umberto Pellecchia, Joyce L. Browne, Julian Sheather, Oscar H. Franco
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2024, vol. 5, p.e76-e82
Advancing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy management Koiwah Koi-Larbi, Dorotheah Obiri, Joyce L Browne, Linda Ahenkorah Fondjo, Samantha Katsande, Isabella Garti,
BMC Proceedings, 2024, vol. 18
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
Elderly people in humanitarian crises, a forgotten population Elburg van Boetzelaer, Joyce L Browne, Sonali Vaid, Umberto Pellecchia, Judith van de Kamp, Oscar H Franco, Amrish Y Baidjoe
PLOS global public health, 2023