Karen Glover

Senior Research Fellow
population health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Pediatrics
Biography

Karen Glover is a Mein:tnk and Wotjobaluk woman from south eastern SA and north western Vic. She has worked in federal and state government in policy and service development and has also worked in the Aboriginal community controlled sector. Karen holds a joint appointment as Senior Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she is Co-leader of Aboriginal health within the Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Group. Karen has worked in research for the past 10 years in the area of maternal and child health and is currently involved in leadership of three NHMRC funded studies: the Aboriginal Families Study, the Childhood Resilience Study and the Aboriginal Family and Baby Bundles Study.

Research Intrest

child health

List of Publications
Weetra D, Glover K, Buckskin M, Kit JA, Leane C, Mitchell A, Stuart-Butler D, Turner M, Yelland J, Gartland D, Brown SJ. Stressful events, social health issues and psychological distress in Aboriginal women having a baby in South Australia: implications for antenatal care. BMC pregnancy and childbirth. 2016 Apr 26;16(1):88.
Yelland J, Weetra D, Stuart‐Butler D, Deverix J, Leane C, Ah Kit J, Glover K, Gartland D, Newbury J, Brown S. Primary health care for Aboriginal women and children in the year after birth: findings from a population‐based study in South Australia. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health. 2016 Oct 1;40(5):418-23.
Brown SJ, Mensah FK, Kit JA, Stuart-Butler D, Glover K, Leane C, Weetra D, Gartland D, Newbury J, Yelland J. Use of cannabis during pregnancy and birth outcomes in an Aboriginal birth cohort: a cross-sectional, population-based study. BMJ open. 2016 Feb 1;6(2):e010286.