Rate My Professor Shelley Brown

Dr. Brown’s research focuses on the linkages between health, human rights, and social justice, particularly perinatal mental health in low- and middle-income countries, global health governance, health equity, and women’s health. Her publications include “Understanding Perinatal Mental Health as a Global Health Governance Concern in South Africa: Health Provider Perspectives” with Sprague and Lindsay (Global Public Health, 2022); “Health care providers’ perceptions of barriers to perinatal mental healthcare in South Africa” with Sprague (BMC Public Health, 2021); “A Right-to-Health Lens on Perinatal Mental Health Care in South Africa” with MacNaughton and Sprague (Health and Human Rights, 2020); and works on HIV among marginalized U.S. populations, such as “Unmet Mental Health and Social Service Needs of Formerly Incarcerated Women Living with HIV in the Deep South” (Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 2018). She has received the BU Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellowship (2019–2021), BU Center for Teaching and Learning STEM Faculty Fellowship (2019–2020), and UMass Boston Center for Peace, Democracy and Development Fellowship (2016–present). Brown developed and teaches courses like Global Mental Health (SAR HS 348) and Global Health Policy & Governance (SAR HS 434), and serves on the Sargent Faculty Council (2019–present).