You are cordially invited to attend the Professorial Lecture by Professor Fiona Alderdice, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, and University of Oxford. 

Title: 'Perinatal mental health: no health without mental health'

The lecture will take place on Tuesday 16^th April 2024 at 17.30 in the Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB, followed by a reception in the Canada Room.

About the speaker

Fiona Alderdice is the Senior Social Scientist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast.  Fiona has an undergraduate degree and PhD in Psychology from Queen’s University Belfast and her research interests in maternal and child health date back to 1992 when she first worked at the NPEU as a research fellow. She was awarded a MRC HSR training fellowship in 1998 to support her work on complex pregnancy and she joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University Belfast in 2002 . Fiona was promoted to Chair in Perinatal Health and Well-being in 2010 and  she joined the NPEU in January 2017. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is a long-standing Cochrane reviewer. Her research focuses on 1) assessing maternal/infant need and experience by developing population surveys that can be used to benchmark  perinatal health and wellbeing nationally and internationally and 2) promoting  mental health and wellbeing in the perinatal period.