Jennifer Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6497-2541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The influence of the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy sector on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: A yarning study
While pharmaceutical companies develop life-saving medicines and the pharmacy sector is integral to healthcare delivery, entities within the medicines sector can also operate as powerful commercial actors. The practices of the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy sector warrant scrutiny through a commercial determinants of health lens. This is particularly important for Indigenous peoples, who experience inequities within Western healthcare s…
Are commercial determinants of health addressed in Australian health policies?
The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are increasingly recognized as major drivers of non-communicable disease and health inequities. However, the extent to which CDoH concepts are translated into policy action remains unclear. This study examined the extent to which Australian public health and health promotion policies recognize and respond to the CDoH. We conducted a critical qualitative content analysis of 94 Australian Commonwealth, s…
Reconciliation or reputation: Critical analysis of commercial sector commitments and framing in reconciliation action plans
Reconciliation action plans (RAPs) are increasingly used by commercial organizations in Australia to demonstrate commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Framed as tools to promote understanding and address historical injustice, these documents also serve organizational interests, particularly in reputation management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). This research critically examined the structure, practices, portfol…
Listening to Aboriginal mothers: Perspectives on infant nutrition and active play promotion
To provide culturally safe maternal and infant nutrition health promotion strategies, it is important that the views, experiences, and preferences of Aboriginal families are privileged. This study aimed to explore the views, experiences, and preferences of Aboriginal mothers’ regarding access to information and support on infant nutrition and active play in Victoria, Australia. Parents and caregivers of Aboriginal infants and children under the a…
‘Pride not profit’: A commercial determinants of Indigenous health case study from Australia
BACKGROUND: The role of the commercial sector in driving population health outcomes is gaining attention; yet the influence of commercial entities and practices on Indigenous health is underexplored. This case study examined the separate legal disputes between Clothing The Gaps (an Aboriginal business, social enterprise and B-Corp) and two for-profit commercial clothing companies, investigating their potential impact on Aboriginal health and well…
‘Everyone’s a bit buzzed, why not share that’: Exploring alcohol-related user-generated content among young people in Victoria, Australia
Social media platforms are increasingly saturated with alcohol-related user-generated content (UGC), which can shape young people’s attitudes and behaviours towards drinking. While all young people are potentially influenced by this content, certain groups, such as Aboriginal young people; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+) young people; and those living in regional areas, experience disprop…
Alcohol Promotion via User‐Generated Content on Instagram and TikTok: A Content Analysis
Factors influencing parents’ food-purchasing decisions in the Pacific: A qualitative study in Tonga
Health promotion efforts and public health policies should recognize the multi-dimensional nature of the factors influencing Tongan parents' food-purchasing decisions. Given the prevalence of diet-related non-communicable diseases in Tonga, the social, cultural, commercial and environmental factors driving unhealthy food-purchasing and population diets in Tonga should be a priority for governments and health promotion practitioners
Equalising power imbalances or a trail of broken promises? A qualitative study on engaging people with diverse lived experience of marginalisation in food policymaking in Australia
We provide a list of practical recommendations to guide more inclusive, equitable and fit-for-purpose food policymaking into the future. These recommendations seek to challenge dominant systems of discrimination by demonstrating how we can tangibly shift to ways of working that value and elevate the power of people who are often excluded from many decision-making systems, specifically when it comes to food and nutrition
Food environments in the Pacific region and efforts to improve them: A scoping review
Objective: To understand the characteristics of food environments in the Pacific region, and the broader economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings that influence food choices and interventions to improve food environments for Pacific communities. Design: Systematic searches were conducted for articles related to food environments or factors influencing food choices from 1993 to 2024 in five academic databases, Google, Google Scholar and rel…
Making Big Business Everybody’s Business: Aboriginal leaders’ perspectives on commercial activities influencing Aboriginal health in Victoria, Australia
BACKGROUND: The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, colonialism and capitalism may amplify commercially-driven health inequities. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of Aboriginal leaders regarding the influence of commercial activities on Aboriginal health and wellbeing in Vic…
Food policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (FoodPath): A systems thinking approach
First Nations peoples have the right to participate in all decisions affecting them. This includes food policy decision-making. In the Australian state of Victoria, the Food Policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (FoodPATH) project aimed to determine the food policy actions that are likely to be effective and acceptable for Victorian Aboriginal Communities. Community-based workshops were held with six Aboriginal Community-Contr…
Corporate sector engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: An Analysis of Stakeholder Submissions
The commercial determinants of health are an emerging area of inquiry; however, a comprehensive understanding of commercial activities impacting Indigenous peoples remains elusive. In 2021, an Australian parliamentary inquiry was initiated to examine how the corporate sector can better engage with Indigenous consumers. This study examined the commercial determinants of Indigenous health and social wellbeing by analysing submissions to the Inquiry…
Media coverage of commercial industry activities impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, 2018–2022
This study aimed to examine the extent and nature of Australian news media coverage of commercial industry activities that explicitly speak to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts. We undertook content and framing analysis of Australian newspaper and online media articles published between January 2018 and March 2022 that included terms related to ‘Indigenous’, ‘commercial’ and ‘health’. Analysis focused on the nature of coverage, frami…
‘A recipe for cultural disaster!’– a case study of Woolworths Group’s proposal to build an alcohol megastore in Darwin, Northern Territory
BACKGROUND: The health and wellbeing impacts of commercial activity on Indigenous populations is an emerging field of research. The alcohol industry is a key driver of health and social harms within Australia. In 2016 Woolworths, the largest food and beverage retailer in Australia, proposed to build a Dan Murphy's alcohol megastore in Darwin, near three 'dry' Aboriginal communities. This study examines the tactics used by Woolworths to advance th…
The commercial determinants of Indigenous health and well-being: A systematic scoping review
INTRODUCTION: Health inequity within Indigenous populations is widespread and underpinned by colonialism, dispossession and oppression. Social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health and well-being are well described. Despite emerging literature on the commercial determinants of health, the health and well-being impacts of commercial activities for Indigenous populations is not well understood. We aimed to identify, map and synthesise the …
Systems thinking for Aboriginal Health: Understanding the value and acceptability of group model building approaches
Systems thinking is increasingly applied to understand and address systemic drivers of complex health problems. In Australia, group model building, a participatory method from systems science, has been applied in various locations to engage communities in systems-based health promotion projects. To date there is limited evidence regarding GMB use with Australian Aboriginal communities. This study aimed to determine the value and acceptability of …
The political economy of restricting marketing to address the double burden of malnutrition: Two case studies from Fiji
Objective: To draw lessons from Fiji regarding the challenges and opportunities for policy initiatives to restrict (i) food marketing to children and (ii) marketing of breast milk substitutes, to inform policy for the double burden of malnutrition. Design: Qualitative political economy analysis of two policy case studies. Setting: Fiji. Participants: Eleven key informants from relevant sectors, representing public health, economic and consumer in…
Effects of food policy actions on Indigenous Peoples’ nutrition-related outcomes: A systematic review
A guide to policy analysis as a research method
Policy analysis provides a way for understanding how and why governments enact certain policies, and their effects. Public health policy research is limited and lacks theoretical underpinnings. This article aims to describe and critique different approaches to policy analysis thus providing direction for undertaking policy analysis in the field of health promotion. Through the use of an illustrative example in nutrition it aims to illustrate the …
Nutrition policy-making in Fiji: Working in and around neoliberalisation in the Global South
Many low- and middle-income countries experience a double burden of malnutrition and nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Existing scholarship highlights adverse impacts of neoliberalism on nutrition, including the influence of laissez-faire economics on reshaping food systems and neoliberalism’s ideological emphasis on personal responsibility for healthy lifestyles. Yet how nutrition policy-makers in the Global South experience and…
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy: Lessons from a case study of food and nutrition
Objective: To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015. Design: A qualitative policy analysis case study was undertaken, combining document analysis with thematic analysis of key informant interviews. Setting: Australia. Participants: Key actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015 ( n 38). Resul…
Overlaying structure and frames in policy networks to enable effective boundary spanning
The literature on the evidence-policy nexus has been dominated in recent years by technocratic approaches such as ‘knowledge translation’. Attention is beginning to return, however, to political science for its insights into the distribution of power, which are key to understanding how policy is made, particularly in the health sphere. Policy network theory, which suggests that policy outcomes are shaped by the interactions between actors in a ne…
Is Aboriginal nutrition a priority for local government? A policy analysis
Objective The present study aimed to explore how Australian local governments prioritise the health and well-being of Aboriginal populations and the extent to which nutrition is addressed by local government health policy. Design In the state of Victoria, Australia, all seventy-nine local governments’ public health policy documents were retrieved. Inclusion of Aboriginal health and nutrition in policy documents was analysed using quantitative con…
A network approach to policy framing: A case study of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan
Use of participatory research and photo-voice to support urban Aboriginal healthy eating: Use of participatory research and photo-voice
The aim of this research was to work collaboratively with an urban Aboriginal community to understand meanings of food and food insecurity and strengthen responses to this issue. The project took place at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative in Geelong, South Eastern Australia in 2009-2010. Photo-voice research methods were used to explore meanings of food and food insecurity. This identified that food selections were influenced by family harmon…
A network approach to policy framing: A case study of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan
Food policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (FoodPath): A systems thinking approach
First Nations peoples have the right to participate in all decisions affecting them. This includes food policy decision-making. In the Australian state of Victoria, the Food Policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (FoodPATH) project aimed to determine the food policy actions that are likely to be effective and acceptable for Victorian Aboriginal Communities. Community-based workshops were held with six Aboriginal Community-Contr…
Corporate sector engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: An Analysis of Stakeholder Submissions
The commercial determinants of health are an emerging area of inquiry; however, a comprehensive understanding of commercial activities impacting Indigenous peoples remains elusive. In 2021, an Australian parliamentary inquiry was initiated to examine how the corporate sector can better engage with Indigenous consumers. This study examined the commercial determinants of Indigenous health and social wellbeing by analysing submissions to the Inquiry…
Use of participatory research and photo-voice to support urban Aboriginal healthy eating: Use of participatory research and photo-voice
The aim of this research was to work collaboratively with an urban Aboriginal community to understand meanings of food and food insecurity and strengthen responses to this issue. The project took place at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative in Geelong, South Eastern Australia in 2009-2010. Photo-voice research methods were used to explore meanings of food and food insecurity. This identified that food selections were influenced by family harmon…
Experiences of Urban Australian Indigenous peer Mentors in a Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Program
This paper describes urban Indigenous Australian experiences of a peer mentor program (PMP) aiming to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) risks and discusses its implications for future policy and practice. Much of the inequitable mortality for Indigenous Australians is related to NCD incidence. Using a qualitative approach the study reported here explored 21 people's experiences as peer mentors in an NCD risk reduction PMP, which took place be…
Is Aboriginal nutrition a priority for local government? A policy analysis
Objective The present study aimed to explore how Australian local governments prioritise the health and well-being of Aboriginal populations and the extent to which nutrition is addressed by local government health policy. Design In the state of Victoria, Australia, all seventy-nine local governments’ public health policy documents were retrieved. Inclusion of Aboriginal health and nutrition in policy documents was analysed using quantitative con…
A network approach to policy framing: A case study of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan
Overlaying structure and frames in policy networks to enable effective boundary spanning
The literature on the evidence-policy nexus has been dominated in recent years by technocratic approaches such as ‘knowledge translation’. Attention is beginning to return, however, to political science for its insights into the distribution of power, which are key to understanding how policy is made, particularly in the health sphere. Policy network theory, which suggests that policy outcomes are shaped by the interactions between actors in a ne…
A guide to policy analysis as a research method
Policy analysis provides a way for understanding how and why governments enact certain policies, and their effects. Public health policy research is limited and lacks theoretical underpinnings. This article aims to describe and critique different approaches to policy analysis thus providing direction for undertaking policy analysis in the field of health promotion. Through the use of an illustrative example in nutrition it aims to illustrate the …
Nutrition policy-making in Fiji: Working in and around neoliberalisation in the Global South
Many low- and middle-income countries experience a double burden of malnutrition and nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Existing scholarship highlights adverse impacts of neoliberalism on nutrition, including the influence of laissez-faire economics on reshaping food systems and neoliberalism’s ideological emphasis on personal responsibility for healthy lifestyles. Yet how nutrition policy-makers in the Global South experience and…
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy: Lessons from a case study of food and nutrition
Objective: To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015. Design: A qualitative policy analysis case study was undertaken, combining document analysis with thematic analysis of key informant interviews. Setting: Australia. Participants: Key actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015 ( n 38). Resul…
Effects of food policy actions on Indigenous Peoples’ nutrition-related outcomes: A systematic review
Systems thinking for Aboriginal Health: Understanding the value and acceptability of group model building approaches
Systems thinking is increasingly applied to understand and address systemic drivers of complex health problems. In Australia, group model building, a participatory method from systems science, has been applied in various locations to engage communities in systems-based health promotion projects. To date there is limited evidence regarding GMB use with Australian Aboriginal communities. This study aimed to determine the value and acceptability of …
The political economy of restricting marketing to address the double burden of malnutrition: Two case studies from Fiji
Objective: To draw lessons from Fiji regarding the challenges and opportunities for policy initiatives to restrict (i) food marketing to children and (ii) marketing of breast milk substitutes, to inform policy for the double burden of malnutrition. Design: Qualitative political economy analysis of two policy case studies. Setting: Fiji. Participants: Eleven key informants from relevant sectors, representing public health, economic and consumer in…
The commercial determinants of Indigenous health and well-being: A systematic scoping review
INTRODUCTION: Health inequity within Indigenous populations is widespread and underpinned by colonialism, dispossession and oppression. Social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health and well-being are well described. Despite emerging literature on the commercial determinants of health, the health and well-being impacts of commercial activities for Indigenous populations is not well understood. We aimed to identify, map and synthesise the …
Media coverage of commercial industry activities impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, 2018–2022
This study aimed to examine the extent and nature of Australian news media coverage of commercial industry activities that explicitly speak to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts. We undertook content and framing analysis of Australian newspaper and online media articles published between January 2018 and March 2022 that included terms related to ‘Indigenous’, ‘commercial’ and ‘health’. Analysis focused on the nature of coverage, frami…
‘A recipe for cultural disaster!’– a case study of Woolworths Group’s proposal to build an alcohol megastore in Darwin, Northern Territory
BACKGROUND: The health and wellbeing impacts of commercial activity on Indigenous populations is an emerging field of research. The alcohol industry is a key driver of health and social harms within Australia. In 2016 Woolworths, the largest food and beverage retailer in Australia, proposed to build a Dan Murphy's alcohol megastore in Darwin, near three 'dry' Aboriginal communities. This study examines the tactics used by Woolworths to advance th…
Making Big Business Everybody’s Business: Aboriginal leaders’ perspectives on commercial activities influencing Aboriginal health in Victoria, Australia
BACKGROUND: The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, colonialism and capitalism may amplify commercially-driven health inequities. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of Aboriginal leaders regarding the influence of commercial activities on Aboriginal health and wellbeing in Vic…
Food policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (FoodPath): A systems thinking approach
First Nations peoples have the right to participate in all decisions affecting them. This includes food policy decision-making. In the Australian state of Victoria, the Food Policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (FoodPATH) project aimed to determine the food policy actions that are likely to be effective and acceptable for Victorian Aboriginal Communities. Community-based workshops were held with six Aboriginal Community-Contr…
Corporate sector engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: An Analysis of Stakeholder Submissions
The commercial determinants of health are an emerging area of inquiry; however, a comprehensive understanding of commercial activities impacting Indigenous peoples remains elusive. In 2021, an Australian parliamentary inquiry was initiated to examine how the corporate sector can better engage with Indigenous consumers. This study examined the commercial determinants of Indigenous health and social wellbeing by analysing submissions to the Inquiry…
‘Everyone’s a bit buzzed, why not share that’: Exploring alcohol-related user-generated content among young people in Victoria, Australia
Social media platforms are increasingly saturated with alcohol-related user-generated content (UGC), which can shape young people’s attitudes and behaviours towards drinking. While all young people are potentially influenced by this content, certain groups, such as Aboriginal young people; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+) young people; and those living in regional areas, experience disprop…
Alcohol Promotion via User‐Generated Content on Instagram and TikTok: A Content Analysis
Factors influencing parents’ food-purchasing decisions in the Pacific: A qualitative study in Tonga
Health promotion efforts and public health policies should recognize the multi-dimensional nature of the factors influencing Tongan parents' food-purchasing decisions. Given the prevalence of diet-related non-communicable diseases in Tonga, the social, cultural, commercial and environmental factors driving unhealthy food-purchasing and population diets in Tonga should be a priority for governments and health promotion practitioners
Equalising power imbalances or a trail of broken promises? A qualitative study on engaging people with diverse lived experience of marginalisation in food policymaking in Australia
We provide a list of practical recommendations to guide more inclusive, equitable and fit-for-purpose food policymaking into the future. These recommendations seek to challenge dominant systems of discrimination by demonstrating how we can tangibly shift to ways of working that value and elevate the power of people who are often excluded from many decision-making systems, specifically when it comes to food and nutrition
Food environments in the Pacific region and efforts to improve them: A scoping review
Objective: To understand the characteristics of food environments in the Pacific region, and the broader economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings that influence food choices and interventions to improve food environments for Pacific communities. Design: Systematic searches were conducted for articles related to food environments or factors influencing food choices from 1993 to 2024 in five academic databases, Google, Google Scholar and rel…
The influence of the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy sector on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: A yarning study
While pharmaceutical companies develop life-saving medicines and the pharmacy sector is integral to healthcare delivery, entities within the medicines sector can also operate as powerful commercial actors. The practices of the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy sector warrant scrutiny through a commercial determinants of health lens. This is particularly important for Indigenous peoples, who experience inequities within Western healthcare s…
Are commercial determinants of health addressed in Australian health policies?
The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are increasingly recognized as major drivers of non-communicable disease and health inequities. However, the extent to which CDoH concepts are translated into policy action remains unclear. This study examined the extent to which Australian public health and health promotion policies recognize and respond to the CDoH. We conducted a critical qualitative content analysis of 94 Australian Commonwealth, s…
Reconciliation or reputation: Critical analysis of commercial sector commitments and framing in reconciliation action plans
Reconciliation action plans (RAPs) are increasingly used by commercial organizations in Australia to demonstrate commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Framed as tools to promote understanding and address historical injustice, these documents also serve organizational interests, particularly in reputation management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). This research critically examined the structure, practices, portfol…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (11 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (11 works) · Public health (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Business (7 works)