Centre for Women's and Children's Health research

The Centre for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health provides research and research training in the field of women's reproductive and perinatal, infant and child mental health including its impacts on child development. The research interests of the Centre include:

• The effect of maternal mental health on child development
• The safety of antidepressant treatment in pregnancy
• The complexities of biological, psychological, and social factors on women and children’s mental health
• Predicting trajectories of maternal mental health from antenatal to many years postpartum
• The efficacy and accessibility of acute mental healthcare in the perinatal period (including Parent Infant Inpatient Units and Mother Baby Units)
• Intergenerational and early life predictors of child mental disorders
• Pharmacogenetics in pregnancy, i.e. how genetic factors influence the efficacy of medications
• Fathers and mental health
• Grandparents and perinatal mental health
• Culture and migration and perinatal mental health

Find out more from the Centre for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health research web page.