Michele Burn is a Psychologist at the Parent-Infant Research Institute (PIRI), Melbourne. Michele has experience in providing psychological assessment and treatment support to new parents, children and families, and has a keen interest in perinatal and infant mental health. Michele is currently working across several clinical and research programs at PIRI, including the Beating the Blues Before Birth research trial and the Bupa Parent and Baby Wellbeing Program. Her previous doctoral research focused on the impact of family mental health interventions on parental mental health and she has several peer-reviewed publications in this area.

Virginia Schmied is Professor of Midwifery and Deputy Dean, Director of Research and Engagement in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University and she holds a Visiting Professorship at University of Central Lancashire (UK). Her research focuses on transition to motherhood, perinatal mental health, postnatal care, breastfeeding and infant feeding decisions, with a strong focus on the organisation of healthcare, workplace culture and the facilitators and barriers to the delivery of high quality maternity and child health care. Most recently, Virginia and her colleagues have been studying experiences of women and men from diverse cultural backgrounds living in western Sydney.

Cate Rawlinson is a Psychologist with 22 years’ experience as a clinician and project manager working in the child and adolescent mental health, child protection and adult mental health sectors. Cate has a specialist interest in perinatal and infant mental health and is currently one of the Brisbane based Service Development Leaders for the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Strategy Unit (QCPIMH). QCPIMH is part of the Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service which provides state-wide strategic advice for perinatal and infant mental health service development and implementation, workforce development, mental health promotion, prevention, research and evaluation, and advocacy across the mental health sector.