Oral Abstract Presenter Bios

Dr Eynav Accortt
Eynav Accortt, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in perinatal mental health and the Director of the Cedars-Sinai Reproductive Psychology Program. Her clinical research focuses on mood and anxiety disorders during the female reproductive life course and in response to chronic illness. She studies the physiological processes that are associated with higher risk for depression and anxiety in pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and following diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women. She is also interested in the association between maternal mental health and adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, with a long-term goal of developing and testing effective interventions.

Dr Martina Alberani
MD, MPH, she is currently a Public Health Registrar at the University of Bologna and a visiting fellow researcher at the Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her work focuses on health system performance, access, quality improvement, and equity, with a strong emphasis on women’s health. She is involved in research on cervical cancer prevention, particularly screening and HPV vaccination policies, and on perinatal mental health. She has experience across research and policy settings, including roles with the Emilia-Romagna Regional Health Authority and the Italian Society of Hygiene, and chairs the Young Women’s Health Group at the European Institute of Women’s Health.

Mrs Michelle Anderson
Michelle Anderson is a Wellbeing of Women Research Training Fellow at King’s College London, Department of Women & Children’s Health, and Lead Research Midwife at the Royal Free London. She has more than 15 years’ experience as a midwife, combining clinical practice, education, and research. Her PhD explores how General Anaesthetic Caesarean Section impacts parental postnatal mental health and early infant bonding, with a focus on improving care and support for families during pregnancy and the postnatal period.

Dr Anteneh Asefa
Anteneh is a health systems researcher specialising in maternal, sexual, reproductive, and child health. He completed his PhD at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne examining health system constraints to the promotion of respectful maternity care in low-resource settings and designing strategies to mitigate them. In 2022 and 2025, he received prestigious research fellowships from the Research Foundation–Flanders (Belgium) to: examine health system barriers to integrating perinatal mental health into maternal health services, and design and evaluate innovations integrating respectful maternity care and perinatal mental health into maternal health and PMTCT services in Ethiopia and Guinea.

Dr Vered Bar
Director of the Chava Women’s Mental Health Center, Reproductive Psychiatry Unit, Psychiatry Division, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Chava Center is the largest Reproductive Psychiatry Unit in Israel, including an ambulatory outpatient unit, a Mother-Baby Day Unit, a Virtual Perinatal Ward, and opening a Mother-Baby Unit July 2026. Dr. Bar is the founder and co-chair of the Mother-Baby Unit Special Interest Group and initiator of this survey.

Dr Annette Bauer
Annette Bauer is a health and care economist at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a leading expert on the economic case for perinatal mental health. Her research focuses on informing resource allocation to address mental health problems in women and children. She developed innovative methodologies to estimate the intergenerational, lifetime costs and return on investment of perinatal mental health difficulties. Her landmark UK study estimated the long-term cost of perinatal mental health problems at £8.1 billion. She has since adapted this approach across multiple low- and middle-income countries, with the methodology replicated internationally. Annette leads the Global Economics of Maternal Mental Health (GEMMH) programme, advancing evidence to shape policy and investment worldwide.

Ms Mari Berglund
Mari Berglund, MNSc, PhD Candidate, Senior Lecturer and Registered Midwife, works as a Degree Programme Leader in Midwifery at Turku University of Applied Sciences and as a Project Coordinator at the University of Turku – Research Centre for Child Psychiatry. She has extensive experience in curriculum planning, educational development, and research activities. She currently serves as an expert in the eMAMA – Developing a Post Graduate Training Programme for Maternal Mental Health project, implemented in Namibia, Zambia, and Malawi. In addition, she coordinates a large RCT intervention study on antenatal depression in Finland. Her doctoral research focuses on perinatal mental health in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ms Caitlin Briedenhann
Caitlin Briedenhann is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. She holds a master’s degree in psychology. Her focus lies at the intersection of psychology, public health, and implementation research. She has interests in gender, sexuality, and mental health interventions. For over three years, she has been part of UNICEF’s Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) research team, coordinating multi-country research implementation. Her PhD focuses on the mental health of the workforce supporting caregivers and communities, and how CFC could potentially benefit them.

Dr Crystal Clark
Dr. Crystal Clark is internationally recognized for her expertise in reproductive psychiatry. She is the Canada Research Chair in Reproductive Mental Health, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and the Associate Head of Research at Women’s College Hospital. Dr. Clark’s clinical specialty is mood and anxiety disorders across the reproductive life span (from menstruation to peri and post menopause). Her research focus has centered on bipolar disorder and Black maternal health. She has investigated the impact of the physiological changes of pregnancy on the pharmacokinetics of psychotropics prescribed for bipolar disorder, and aims to develop identification and prevention strategies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders among Black women. Dr. Clark has been funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health. She is a past president of the Marcé of North America. She serves on the board of directors for The International Marcé Society of Perinatal Mental Health and the American Society of Psychopharmacology. She has been a contributor to large initiatives in the US and Canada to improve perinatal mental health screening, awareness, diagnosis, and medication management. Dr. Clark is a native to Chicago, Illinois, USA. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and her medical doctorate at University of Louisville. She completed residency in adult psychiatry and served as chief resident at Johns Hopkins.

Dr Naomi Dick Kaba
Dr Naomi Dick Kaba is a public health specialist, pharmacist (PharmD), and global health advocate focused on gender equity and mental health in Africa. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Hakili Nafaya Institute, a research and advocacy platform advancing women’s mental health through evidence generation, leadership, and policy engagement. Naomi serves as Secretary General of Women in Global Health Côte d’Ivoire and has held regional leadership roles bridging public and private sectors across sub-Saharan Africa. Her work centers on decolonizing global health narratives, strengthening Francophone African representation, and integrating mental health into broader health systems and policy frameworks.

Dr Amanda Firth
Amanda Firth is a midwife and academic at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her research focuses on improving understanding, recognition and support for women and families experiencing mental health difficulties during the perinatal period. Amanda’s work seeks to tackle health inequalities affecting minoritised women during the perinatal period, with a focus on improving equity, access to care, and developing culturally responsive maternity services. Amanda is committed to advancing perinatal mental health awareness within maternity services and education, engaging in research that aims to improve outcomes for all mothers, babies and families.

Ms Tessa Fujisaki
Tessa Fujisaki, MPH, is a Research Coordinator at the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health at Washington State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Pomona College and her MPH in global health, with a graduate certificate in the Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh), from the University of Washington. Her graduate practicum and thesis work focused on integrated perinatal mental health care, supporting universal mental health screening and services for perinatal women in Western Kenya through the Integrated Perinatal Mental Health (IPMH) program.

Dr Sundarnag Ganjekar
Dr. Sundarnag Ganjekar is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He is an Adult Psychiatrist and is also part of the Perinatal Psychiatry Services and the Mother–Baby Unit under the Department of Psychiatry. He is clinician researcher and teacher to postgraduates in psychiatry, psychology, psychiatric social work and psychiatry nursing.

Dr Alison Hipwell
Dr. Hipwell’s research uses a multidisciplinary life course approach to explore three interconnected areas: preconception factors influencing peripartum mental health, pregnancy as a stress-test for cardiovascular health, and the intergenerational transmission of stress. Her recent work includes studies on resilience to prenatal stress and its effects on offspring neurodevelopment through the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health (ECHO) consortium, as well as research into nutritional factors that may reduce pregnancy-related cardiovascular risk among Black women. She also co-leads a study on mother-infant neurobehavioral synchrony in the context of postpartum depression.

Dr Camille Hoffman
Dr. Camille Hoffman is a Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry. She has clinical expertise in managing high-risk pregnancies, obstetric ultrasound, and the management of psychiatric conditions during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Her research focuses on interventions to improve maternal mental health and the overall health and wellness of women, children and their families. Her current research includes an NIH-funded RO1 grant that is an RCT focused on gestational choline supplementation to buffer maternal stress and improve child neurodevelopment.

Mrs Jane Honikman
Jane Honikman, M.S. is an author, advocate, trainer and mentor for parental mental health. Her career began in 1977 as a young parent and co-founder of Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP). In 1987 she founded Postpartum Support International (PSI) and served as Executive Director for 18 years and continues to serve on the Advisory Council. She volunteers as the PSI Grandparent Peer Support Coordinator. She co-founded the Parental Action Institute (PAI) in 2016. Jane has published seven books and lectured internationally. Jane and her husband Terry have lived an active lifestyle in Santa Barbara, California since 1970. They have three married adult children and eight grandchildren.

Dr Mari Ikeda
Dr. Mari Ikeda is a Professor in the Department of Family Nursing at The University of Tokyo. Prof. Ikeda is known for her innovative research addressing postpartum mood disorders in mothers and their families. Prof. Ikeda has expertise in a range of research methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and observational interview methods. She offers training sessions for the Attachment Style Interview, which reveals the foundation of a secure base for a person.

Dr Maria Luisa Imaz Gurruchaga
Dr. María Luisa Imaz is a consultant psychiatrist at the Perinatal Mental Health Unit of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona, focused on lithium treatment during the perinatal period. She also earned a Master’s in Drug Addiction from the University of Deusto and a Master’s in Legal and Forensic Psychiatry from the Complutense University of Madrid. A founding member of the Spanish Marcé Society (MARES), she served as general secretary (2012–2016) and is currently its international representative. Her clinical and research interests include perinatal affective disorders, bipolar disorder, puerperal psychosis, and pharmacogenetics.

Dr Sigridur Sia Jonsdottir
Dr. Sigridur Sia Jonsdottir is an associate professor at the nursing department at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. She holds a PhD from the Linnaeus University in Sweden. She is the current chair of the Nordic Marcé chapter og the Marcé Society. Her main research focus is mental wellbeing of expectant parents during pregnancy. She held a clinical position as a director of a high-risk perinatal clinic before pursuing the academic career some years ago.

Dr Kate Keenan
Kate Keenan is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. Dr. Keenan’s program of research in developmental psychopathology spans several developmental periods and phenotypes. The integrative thread running through each study is the aim of identifying the earliest appearing individual differences that connote risk for poor health. The work is designed to be relevant to the the development of prevention interventions. She is specifically interested in the study of the type and timing of stress exposure on health outcomes and developing scalable targets that can reduce health disparities.

Dr Brieanne Kohrt
Brieanne (Brie) Kohrt, PhD, PMH-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in perinatal mental health, complex trauma, and culturally adapted interventions for Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities. She is a Perinatal Psychologist at the Zickler Family Prenatal Pediatrics Institute at Children’s National Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics at George Washington University. Her research uses task-sharing models to expand perinatal mental health care in low-resource settings in Latin America, with active projects in Guatemala and Peru, as well as cultural adaptation of evidence-based treatments for Spanish-speaking immigrant women in the United States. She is committed to linguistic justice and cultural responsiveness in clinical and research spaces.

Mrs Keesha Lebitsa
Keesha has a strong academic background and a passion for promoting mental health, particularly within the context of higher education and women’s well-being in South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Life Sciences, an Honours degree in Psychology from Stellenbosch University and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree with a focus on student psychological well-being in the higher education environment.

Dr Qing Li
Qing Li, MD, DrPH is a certified relationship educator and an OB/GYN-trained perinatal and injury epidemiologist. She holds a Doctor of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health from University of Alabama at Birmingham. She trained OB/GYNs in China on safe delivery practices and in Mississippi on intimate partner violence screening. Her work focuses on building transdisciplinary translational teams and integrated data systems, evaluating culturally tailored preventive interventions, public health laws, collaborative quality improvement, and integrated systems of care, preventing violence and pregnancy-associated homicide and suicide, and promoting safe motherhood, health equity, mental and relational health, and family resilience.

Mrs Nokuthula Mabena
Nokuthula is passionate about nurturing families and is a wife and mother of two young adult sons. Raised by a resilient single mother, I witnessed the importance of hard work and determination. A registered dietitian at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, with a special interest in infant and family nutrition and food service. My research focused on food insecurity and nutrition environments, and my MSc in Dietetics explored these issues among higher education students. As a PhD candidate at the University of Witwatersrand, she is further deepening her understanding of the intricate relationships between food, nutrition, and community well-being.

Dr Lerato Malakoane
Dr Malakoane is a medical doctor affiliated with the Psychiatry Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her clinical and academic interests include perinatal mental health, integrated models of care, and the intersection of psychiatric illness with obstetric and neonatal outcomes in low- and middle-income settings. She is currently completing her Master of Medicine (MMed) dissertation examining perinatal outcomes among women attending a tertiary Maternal Mental Health Clinic at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. Her work focuses on strengthening collaborative care models within public sector services and contributing locally generated evidence to the global perinatal mental health literature.

Dr Albert Manasyan
Dr Albert Manasyan is a perinatal researcher with over 15 years of experience leading multinational global health initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa. His work has involved managing cross-functional, multicultural teams and providing strategic leadership within both governmental and nonprofit research environments. His research interests include safe motherhood, with a focus on postpartum haemorrhage, postpartum depression, sexually transmitted infections, including vertical transmission; newborn health, including preterm birth, apnoea of prematurity, growth restriction and neurodevelopmental delays; and cervical cancer, including the validation and field evaluation of diagnostic technologies.

Dr Emily Miller
Dr. Miller’s professional training is as an obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine physician. She has an expertise in obstetric and perinatal outcomes related to perinatal mental health disorders and has dedicated her career to optimizing the treatment of perinatal behavioral health. She serves on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist’s (ACOG’s) “Maternal Mental Health Expert Work Group” and developed national consensus statements to guide care provision for perinatal mental health conditions. She is the PI for three ongoing NIH-funded trials designed to evaluate the adaptation and implementation of the collaborative care model into perinatal health care contexts with the goal of optimizing equitable access to wellness for birthing people and new families.

Dr Isabelle Mueller
Dr. Mueller’s research leverages sleep as a unique window into early brain development, studying the impact of maternal exposures on fetal autonomic organization. She uses wearable technologies, fetal ECG, and machine learning to track sleep–wake states and autonomic regulation from mid-gestation through infancy. Her K99/R00 project integrates maternal glucose monitoring with fetal ECG to identify early neurophysiological signatures of risk and resilience.

Mr Asterico Neema
Mr Asterico Neema is a Public Health Professional with over 10 years of experience in research, surveillance, health behavior change communication, and community programming within the public health and development sectors. He is passionate about advancing maternal and mental health outcomes through evidence-based research, community engagement, and culturally responsive interventions. Currently, he serves as a Project Coordinator for a Perinatal Mental Health Project implemented through collaboration between Kenyatta National Hospital and the University of Washington in Kenya. In this role, he supports the coordination and implementation of research activities aimed at strengthening maternal mental health services, improving early identification of perinatal mental health conditions, and promoting integrated care within maternal and child health systems.

Dr Alexis Palfreyman
Dr Palfreyman is an interdisciplinary global health researcher focused on maternal mental health/suicide, violence, and sexual/reproductive health rights. She conducted the first global adaptation of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale for perinatal women, establishing Sri Lanka’s first maternal mental health policy targets, perinatal self-harm prevalence data, and evidence linking violence to antenatal depression and self-harm. She produced the first global evidence on midwives’ coercive responses to women’s self-harm, and led a recent review of adolescent perinatal mental health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. She founded the Centre for Impact on Violence and Health in 2023.

Dr Jennifer Payne
Dr. Payne is Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and directs the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program which studies psychiatric disorders triggered by times of hormonal change in women. Dr. Payne is a reproductive psychiatrist and her research has identified two epigenetic biomarkers of postpartum depression that are approximately 80% accurate in predicting which women are at elevated risk. She and her colleagues are actively working on identifying the underlying biological basis of postpartum depression and other reproductive mood disorders.

Ms Ashwathi PG
Ashwathi PG is a Clinical Psychologist, pursuing doctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India, on developing and evaluating an Integrated Grief Therapy for women survivors of perinatal loss. She holds an MSc and MPhil in Clinical Psychology. Her specialized psychotherapy trainings include; trauma-focused psychotherapy, narrative therapy, gender sensitive practice, and family systems therapy. Her research interests include trauma-focused psychotherapy, women’s mental health, and female substance use. She received the Best Paper Award at the National Conference of the Clinical Psychology Society of India (2023) and has contributed to a recent national initiative on Respectful Maternity Care.

Ms Tyla Prinsloo
Tyla Prinsloo works as a maternal mental health counsellor at the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP). Currently enrolled in an MPhil in Public Mental Health, Tyla works to understand and facilitate contextually appropriate mental health interventions to meet the needs of perinatal women.

Dr Gina Rencken
Gina is a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and clinician in the field of paediatric occupational therapy. She has a particular interest in neonatal care, early intervention, ADHD and neurodevelopmental conditions. She has a research and clinical interest in infant, child and maternal mental health and development. She is trained in Ayres Sensory Integration ® and lectures in the South African Institute for Sensory Integration (SAISI)’s qualification course. She is an executive committee member of SAISI and the International Council for Education in Ayres Sensory Integration (ICE-ASI), where she serves as the chair of council and director for research. She also serves on the membership committee for the International Newborn Brain Society. She has published in peer reviewed journals, an Occupational Therapy textbook, and presented at national and international congresses. Her PhD explored the neurobehavioural function of HIV exposed infants and maternal mental health.

Dr Stephanie Redinger
Stephanie Redinger is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand. Her focus is perinatal mental health and the impact of caregiving environments on child developmental outcomes, and as an Occupational Therapist she is interested in how we best measure these outcomes in research settings. Currently, Stephanie is the Co-PI of a grant to develop and test the UNICEF Caring for the Caregiver Training Package in several countries and regions across the globe.

Prof Tamsen Rochat
Tamsen Rochat is a Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, and affiliated to the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Tamsen trained as a clinical psychologist, working in public mental health before becoming a researcher. Her PhD research was one of the first studies of antenatal depression and HIV in Africa, published in JAMA. Previously she has held British Academy and Wellcome Trust fellowships and has published over 80 peer review publications. Recently she led the development of the UNICEF Caring for the Caregiver package, currently being implemented in 23 countries globally.

Dr Sonya Rudra
Sonya Rudra is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities in England and a Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London. Her research focuses on parents with learning disabilities and their children, using mixed-methods approaches to examine outcomes, experiences, and service responses. Through her combined clinical and academic work, she aims to improve understanding, support, and equity for families where a parent has a learning disability.

Dr Tatiana Salisbury
Dr Tatiana Taylor Salisbury is Reader in Global Mental Health and Design at King’s College London (KCL). She is Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health at KCL and a Founding Trustee of the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health. Her work blends human-centred design, systems thinking and implementation science to develop development of scalable and sustainable solutions to address perinatal mental health in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr Katherine Elizabeth Sevar
Dr Katherine Sevar is a Consutlant Perinatal Psychiatrist at Monash Health, Melboourne, working in the Mother Baby Unit and ther perinatal liaison clinic. SHe is also enrolled in a PhD through Monash University and her research concentrates on teh role of migration and culture as a risk and protective factor in teh development of perinatal depression.

Dr Julia Shekunov
Julia Shekunov, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, where she serves as Program Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and Medical Director of the Child, Adolescent and Family Treatment Unit. Dr. Shekunov’s research focuses on early childhood emotion regulation, acute psychiatric care delivery, pediatric psychopharmacology, and technology-augmented behavioral interventions. She has presented nationally and internationally on her work which includes translational research across inpatient and outpatient settings and systems-level innovations aimed at improving access and outcomes in child mental health care.

Ms Julia Siodmiak
Julia has a background in psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on how brain activity and neurotransmitter dynamics shape human behavior and mental health. She integrates physiological mechanisms into broader frameworks for mental health research and intervention development. In her PhD, she investigates postpartum mental health, examining how hormones, stress, environmental factors, and physiology influence emotional well-being after childbirth. Her project also explores non-invasive brain stimulation approaches, particularly transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), as potential interventions for postpartum depression and anxiety.

Prof Gill Thomson
Gill currently works as a Professor in Perinatal Health at the University of Lancashire and leads the MAINN research unit. Gill has a psychology academic background and a PhD in midwifery. Gill’s research interests relate to psychosocial influences and implications of perinatal care, with a particular focus on perinatal mental health, addressing inequities and peer support models of care.

Ms Nicole Twum-Ampofo
Nicole Twum-Ampofo is an MSc student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at McMaster University under the supervision of Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout. Her research focuses on postpartum depression (PPD) and how it shapes birthing parent, infant, and dyadic behaviours. She examines parent–infant interactions in healthy dyads and those affected by PPD using the Coding Interactive Behavior (CIB) instrument to investigate how relational patterns differ. Nicole’s research aims to advance understanding of early parent–infant relationships and inform prevention and intervention strategies that support birthing parents and infants during the postpartum period.

Dr Nicole Votruba
Dr Nicole Votruba is a psychologist, and global mental health and implementation science researcher at the University of Oxford, where she leads the Global Mental Health & Equity Group. She is Principal Investigator of the PRAMH study, a community-based perinatal mental health intervention in rural India, and leads work on equitable mental health integration in reproductive care in Central Asia and the UK. Her work focuses on women’s mental health and equity, stigma reduction, implementation science and translating evidence into policy across low- and middle-income countries.

Mrs Helen Walker
Helen is a senior mental health nurse and service leader with over 16 years’ experience across the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Helen has led the development and management of specialist perinatal mental health services, championing compassionate, culturally sensitive care for women and families during the perinatal period. Her work emphasizes early intervention, stigma reduction, and improving access to support for mothers. A strong advocate for nursing visibility, Helen integrates clinical expertise, research, and leadership to influence policy and practice. Through teaching, public speaking, and research, she raises awareness of maternal mental health and promotes holistic, family-centered care.

Mrs Rinde L. W. Yildiz
Rinde Yildiz is a psychiatry resident with a focus on hospital psychiatry at OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, currently in the final stage of her residency training. Alongside her clinical training, she is actively engaged in research in the field of perinatal psychiatry, exploring the intersection of psychiatric vulnerability and obstetric care. Rinde is passionate about improving mental health care for women during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and aims to contribute to both clinical and academic developments in perinatal mental health.