Dr Alex Brown

Dr Alex Brown is an Indigenous doctor, who has been working in Aboriginal Health, Aboriginal Health education, policy, communicable disease control, service delivery and public health, epidemiology, research and research ethics for the last 12 years. Dr Brown is currently the head of the Centre for Indigenous Vascular and Diabetes Research, for the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, based in Alice Springs.

Dr Brown’s research interests include Indigenous cardiovascular disease disparity and its determinants, clinical and epidemiological cardiovascular research, chronic disease policy development, health services research, Indigenous Male Health, and unpacking the psychosocial determinants of Indigenous health.

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