Vera Scantlebury Brown OBE MBBS MD (7 August 1889 – 14 July 1946) was an Australian medical practitioner and pediatrician in Victoria, Australia.

[2][3] before leaving for England in 1917 to join the Royal Army Medical Corps where she reached the rank of Lieutenant, and was attached to the Endell Street Military Hospital as an assistant surgeon to Louisa Garrett Anderson.

They organised visits by dentists and doctors and they created the Forest Hill holiday-home[6] In 1937, following Scantlebury Brown report on infant welfare for the National Health and Research Council, the Commonwealth Government allocated £100,000 for the benefit of pre-school children, from the Coronation Commemoration Grant.

[3] In 1944, pre-school activities including payment of subsidies to free kindergartens were also placed under Scantlebury Brown's supervision, and her vision and enthusiasm achieved a further success in 1945, when the State Government decided to bring under the Health Department the care of expectant mothers and all children to six years of age.

[8] Golden Plains Shire commemorated Scantlebury Brown by commissioning a life-sized sculpture of her to be housed on the Avenue of Honour in her birth town of Linton, Victoria.