Rate My Professor Graham Brown

Professor Brown's research leadership focuses on strengthening peer-led and lived or living experience-led organisations, as well as exploring clinical, community, and peer service partnerships to enhance the quality of life for people living with HIV. He is a key member of the ARCSHS leadership team and leads research teams dedicated to building evidence for effective community responses, including the roles of non-governmental organisations, community development, and peer-based programs. His current work applies systems thinking and concepts from complex adaptive systems to better understand and bolster community and peer-led programs in populations affected by HIV, hepatitis C, and within LGBTQ+ communities. Notably, he led the W3 Project, a collaboration between ARCSHS researchers and peer organisations, which developed the W3 Framework for evaluating peer work in Australia's public health responses to HIV and hepatitis C. This initiative, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, spanned multiple phases from 2013, including framework development, piloting, and a national study on peer-led programs' evidence and impact. Key publications include 'Tackling structural stigma: a systems perspective' (2022), contributions to HIV Futures reports on quality of life among people living with HIV in Australia, and works on networks in flux examining power and influence in the Victorian HIV and hepatitis C sector. Professor Brown's contributions have advanced participatory research and peer-led approaches in public health.