Associate Professor
Strategic program(s):
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:
Research aim
The global maternal health group contributes through research, education and healthcare to better health outcomes for mothers and their infants worldwide.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 globallyResearch 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.