Begin Before Birth

26th Oct 2023

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Begin Before Birth: An Update on Perinatal Mental Health

This meeting will reveal fascinating insights into perinatal mental health. Chaired by Professor Vivette Glover, this symposium brings together international experts to discuss mental health matters for parents and their babies, giving updates on the latest research.

The programme will be of interest to all those who care for women in the perinatal period including health visitors, midwives, obstetricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, GPs, and paediatricians, as well as researchers, commissioners, and charity workers. The conference will cover an overview of the range of mental health problems that can occur in the perinatal period and how best to deal with them; domestic violence and how to help; cultural differences; effects on the baby; and how music can help. The conference consists of seven expert speakers and the opportunity for a question and answer sessions. It will take place on 26 October 2023, you will have access to the conference materials for the following year.

We welcome attendees from both within and outside the UK. The fee for those from low and middle-income countries is £15, but please contact us if that is a problem for you.

Registration Fees

Consultants, GP’s at £100
Trainee doctors, nurses, health professionals, and others £75
Low middle-income countries £15

10.00-10.45	Trudi Seneviratne,	Overview of perinatal mental illnesses
10.45-11.30	Louise Howard	Domestic violence and how to help
11.30-11.40	break	break
11.40-12.25	Ruth Oshikanlu	Understanding and helping with cultural differences
12.25-1.00	Michelle Wright	My own experience
1.00-1.30	break	break
1.30-2.15	Sue Pawlby	Understanding your baby and effects of postnatal depression
2.15-3.00	Katie Rose Sanfilippo	Music can help too
3.00-3.45	Alain Gregoire	Working together for better perinatal mental health

Chair Biographies

Vivette Glover is Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London. She studies the effects of anxiety in pregnancy on fetal development as head of the Fetal and Neonatal Stress Research Group at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital. She was awarded the Parent Infant Partnership UK Award for Research in Pregnancy and Infant Mental Health in 2017.

Speaker Biographies
Dr. Alain Gregoire is a retired Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He has conducted research into perinatal services. He is Honorary President of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance plus a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health and has contributed to the development of policy, guidance, and clinical services in the UK and abroad. He also set up the Hampshire Perinatal Mental Health Service.

Dr Trudi Seneviratne is Clinical Director at the Mother and Baby Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, where she supported the development of Perinatal Mental Health Services. In 2016, she was elected Chair of The Perinatal Faculty, Royal College Psychiatrists, where she promoted perinatal mental health services, standards, research and medical training/education globally. In 2019, she was awarded an OBE for services to Perinatal Psychiatry. She has given several talks at Parliament to influence policy and service investment.

Professor Vivette Glover will donate her proceeds to The International Marcé Society; an organisation dedicated to sustaining an international perinatal mental health community to promote research and high quality clinical care around the world.

Proceeds from all of our conferences support our research into problems with fertility, pregnancy and birth. Our scientists at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London continue to lead the world in this field of research. Many major findings at the site have contributed to the understanding of fertility and fetal development. This has improved in utero and newborn babies’ health.

Please see the Genesis Research Trust website for further information about us.

This is a list of countries with low-income or middle-income economies that qualify for our special rate to attend this conference. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) compiles this information and revises it every three years.

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
China (People’s Republic of)
Colombia
Comoros
Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Cuba
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
North Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Wallis and Futuna
West Bank and Gaza Strip
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe