12th November 2013

It is now known that perinatal mental illness can have significant long term public health and societal consequences when it goes undiagnosed and without intervention.

This conference is a joint event from the Institute of Health Visiting and their founding partner the Royal Society for Public Health. This conference will consider the effects of perinatal mental illness ante and postnatally on the infant, the mother, the father and on society and how these can be reduced. It will also share some important new national developments in the field which have been designed to reduce its impact. The day will take a public health perspective to a very common condition suffered by at least one in seven mothers.

Speakers

Chair: Dr Cheryll Adams, Director iHV
Sally Russell, Chair iHV
Professor Vivette Glover, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, London
Dr Alain Gregoire, Maternal Mental Health Alliance
Dr Jane Hanley, President International Marcé Society
Dr Ann Hoskins, Children’s Director, Public Health England
Chris Cuthbert, Head of Strategy & Development for Under Ones, NSPCC
Dan Poulter, MP (TBC)
Emeritus Professor John Cox, Keele University co-developer of the EPDS
Mark Williams, Director, Fathers Reaching Out

Who should attend?

The programme is designed to be of value to health visitors, GPs, midwives, those working in mental and public health and those commissioning these services