Maggie Brown

Dr. Maggie Brown is an Assistant Professor in the School of Integrated Health at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Statistics and Epidemiology from Dalhousie University.

Dr. Brown’s research focuses on maternal and child health, leveraging large linked administrative and clinical datasets to study health trajectories from pregnancy through early childhood. Her work explores the intergenerational effects of maternal health, predictors of birth outcomes, and the impact of pre-pregnancy and prenatal exposures, including medications, vaccines, and obstetric interventions, on short- and long-term maternal and child well-being. This includes research on planned mode of delivery among individuals with a previous cesarean, perinatal risk prediction, and validation of administrative data-based algorithms. She is particularly interested in how health services and policy interest with reproductive and child health outcomes in Atlantic Canada.

Dr. Brown collaborates with physicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, public health professionals, and government stakeholders to design studies that address real-world clinical and policy questions. Current projects span workforce challenges in long-term care, evaluating labour induction practices in Canada, and establishing longitudinal birth cohorts of linked administrative data in New Brunswick.

Her research is supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. She regularly supervises undergraduate honours students and contributes to graduate student supervision in interdisciplinary health research. Recent publications include works in Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, Scientific Reports, and the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.