Background

Brooke Vandenberg is an International Health Project Officer in the Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition working group, International Development discipline. Brooke has completed an MPH and has strong research and project interest around equitable access to primary health care, and improving health outcomes for women and girls though promoting women’s participation, development, gender equality and preventing family violence.

Brooke has held several research positions at Monash University, School of Primary and Allied Health Care (SPAHC), Department of General Practice working across projects including the development of an NHMRC clinical guideline for work-related mental health conditions and the co-created web resource to foster student’s respectful relationships - GIVE RESPECT. In 2016, she was awarded a SPAHC Seeding Research & Research Degrees (SRRDS) Grant for the qualitative project Women in leadership: the role of gender in primary health care.

Previously, Brooke was appointed as the Fundraising and Communications Coordinator at Hagar Australia – an organization dedicated to freeing communities from human trafficking, slavery and abuse. In this role she coordinated Hagar’s marketing strategy and led two major campaigns, Run for Freedom and the 2017 Christmas Appeal.

Positions

• 2018: Project Officer, NHMRC Work-related mental health clinical guidelines (Department of General Practice, Monash University)
• 2017: Fundraising and Communications Coordinator (Hagar Australia)
• 2017: Project Manager, GIVE RESPECT (Monash University, Department of General Practice)
• 2013 – 2017: Research Administrator (School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University)
• 2011 – 2013: Research Assistant (Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit)
• 2010: Public Health Officer (Monash Council)

Qualifications

• 2015: MPH (Monash University)

• 2011: Bachelor Public Health and Health Promotion, Major in Marketing (Deakin University)

• 2016: Residential Course in Primary Health Care and Development at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project Jamkhed, India (The Nossal Institute for Global Health)

Projects (2)

Current (2)

• Accelerating access to postnatal care and chlorhexidine in PNG
  Scaling-up implementation and education relating to the postnatal period and introducing chlorhexidine for use by families.
• Accelerating Immunisation and Health System Strengthening (AIHSS)
  Reducing vaccine preventable death and disease through boosting routine immunisation service delivery and outreach

Publications (6)

2018 (2)

• A Rapid Review of Evidence-Based Information, Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Addressing the Health Needs of Refugees and Migrants:
  Cheng I-H, Advocat J, Vasi S, Enticott JC, WilleyS, Wahidi S, Crock B, Raghavan A, Vandenberg BE, Gunatillaka N, Wong V, Girdwood A, Rottler A, Blackmore R, Gibson-Helm M, Boyle JA
  Report to the World Health Organization. 2018 Jul
• Mindfulness-based lifestyle programs for the self-management of Parkinson's disease in Australia.
  Brooke E Vandenberg, Jenny Advocat, Craig Hassed, Jennifer Hester, Joanne Enticott, Grant Russell
  Health Promot Int. 2018 Apr; Epub ahead of print

2017 (1)

• Baser and Morgan 5 Capabilities Framework for organisational capacity building. A literature Review..
  Vandenberg BE
  International Women’s Development Agency. 2017 Jul

2016 (1)

• The effects of a mindfulness-based lifestyle program for adults with Parkinson's disease: a mixed methods, wait list controlled randomised control study.
  Jenny Advocat, Joanne Enticott, Brooke Vandenberg, Craig Hassed, Jennifer Hester, Grant Russell
  BMC Neurol. 2016 Sep; 16:166

2013 (1)

• The effects of a mindfulness-based lifestyle programme for adults with Parkinson's disease: protocol for a mixed methods, randomised two-group control study.
  Jenny Advocat, Grant Russell, Joanne Enticott, Craig Hassed, Jennifer Hester, Brooke Vandenberg
  BMJ Open. 2013 Oct; 3(10):e003326

2010 (1)

• Monash Immunisations Services.Customer survey evaluation report 2009-2010.
  Vandenberg B, Imbesi A
  Monash City Council. 2010 Jul

News Articles (2)

2020 (1)

• Child immunisation boost for West Sepik communities

2019 (1)

• New collaboration targets newborn sepsis