Dean's Grand Rounds: Health inequalities in global perinatal mental health, evidence and steps forward

Social factors, stigma and cultural differences in how mental health is perceived are known to affect access to healthcare. Regional and remote areas bring unique challenges.

Two services in the UK (ROSHNI) and Australia (E-PIMH) will present how they have adapted their models of care to improve access to perinatal infant mental health services considering the unique needs of their communities.

ROSHNI is a national scale research study, designed to address the rise of British South Asian (BSA) women who experience post-natal depression.

E-PIMH is a Telepsychiatry service run by Queensland Centre for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health, providing specialist perinatal and infant mental health psychiatry across regional and remote areas with limited service access.

Chair

Rebecca Horne, Consultant Psychiatrist, WBHHS & SCHHS, Queensland Health; Vice Chair Western Pacific International Division, RCPsych; Co-opted Perinatal Faculty Executive Committee member, RCPsych 

Livia Martucci, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Lambeth Perinatal Community Service, Clinical Lead, SLaM Perinatal Services; Chair Perinatal Faculty, RCPsych

Speakers

Perinatal and postnatal depression: global challenges, inequalities, and solutions

Professor Nusrat Husain, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research for Global Mental Health, University of Manchester; Honorary Clinical Professor, University of Liverpool; Director Research & Innovation and Global Centre for Research on Mental Health Inequalities and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist for Early Intervention Services, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

ROSHNI2 trial 

Farah Lunat, Research Operations Manager, Research Trials Manager (ROSHNI2, Solutions), Research and Development, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Reducing inequalities: the role of telepsychiatry in perinatal and infant mental health in Queensland

Nicki Walsh, Statewide Consumer Carer Coordinator, Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health; Elisabeth Hoehn, Medical Director, Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health