Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown
Chair of Public Health, Warwick University Medical School
Sarah Stewart-Brown is Professor of Public Health at Warwick University and Director of the Health Sciences Research Institute at Warwick Medical School. She has a longstanding interest in the promotion of mental wellbeing and has been particularly concerned with parenting as one approach to improving the nation’s health.
She has undertaken a wide range of research on parenting, defining its health impact and evaluating possible interventions, and published widely in journals and books. She has also undertaken research for the English National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the World Health Organisation’s Health Evidence Network and the European Union’s DG SANCO on approaches to mental health promotion in children and young people in various settings including schools.
She holds a medical degree from the University of Oxford, a PhD in Community Health and Epidemiology from the University of Bristol and worked for 15 years in the National Health Service in general medicine, paediatrics and public health.
