Our research
The Centre for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health's largest project is the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Project, which is an ongoing longitudinal study looking at the effect of depression and antidepressant use during pregnancy on maternal and child outcomes up to ten years postpartum so far.
Our areas of research interest 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, ie. how genetic factors influence the efficacy of medications
- Fathers and mental health
- Grandparents and perinatal mental health
- Culture and migration and perinatal mental health
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