Brown, Valerie Anne (1930 - )

Summary

Valerie Brown has worked in Australia, Malaysia, Fiji and China on projects that link public health and environmental governance. In her research she applies integrative methods to exploring the potential for locally sustainable responses to global social and environmental pressures.

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Chronology

1983

Career position - Visiting Fellow of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Family Health Project at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal

1985 - 1989

Career position - Inaugural Director of Health Advancement Services, Australian Capital Territory

1989 - 1996

Career position - Director of Local Sustainability Project Centre at Resources and Environment Studies at the Australian National University (ANU)

1996 - 2002

Career position - Foundation Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Western Sydney

1999

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Biographical cuttings on Dr Valerie Brown, educationist and human scientist, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

• 'Brown, Valerie A (19300804-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-572477. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details