Meet The Team

I am a psychologist specialising in mental health and wellbeing in pregnancy, birth and postpartum. My experiences as a mum and a researcher have shown me first-hand how important it is to do research to inform maternity services and policy. Women’s experiences are at the heart of everything we do and I am excited to be part of the INTERSECT project, which has the potential to prevent birth trauma and make sure those affected get help and treatment. I am very grateful to all our INTERSECT partners, women and families across the world for working together to make this happen.

I'm a licensed supervising clinical psychologist as well as a lecturer of clinical practice courses. In my clinical practice, I work with teens as well as adults. I’m an Associate Professor with tenure at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo in Israel. My research program revolves around my clinical experience, and I see my professional work as a clinical psychologist, teacher, and researcher activities as sustaining and nurturing each other. I’m particularly interested in the way resiliency and vulnerability factors are associated with the peripartum mental health of parents, with a special interest in parent-infant bonding. I’m very happy to be on the core team of the INTERSECT project as I feel that there is great value in learning the differences (but mainly similarities!) in maternity care and postpartum mental health around the world.

I am a research fellow, working in perinatal mental health. I feel very passionately about the way women are treated during pregnancy, labour and birth and am therefore thrilled to be part of the INTERSECT project. I am a mum and when I was pregnant saw for myself how important the work we do is. I hope that this project can make a big difference to all women who experience maternity care worldwide.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health and Society at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London. Working between health sciences and medical humanities perspectives, my research focus is on the relationship between embodiment and mental health. As a mum of two, and with previous lived experience of mental health challenges, I am passionate about improving understanding of women’s health and the interplay between our physical and emotional lives.

I am a researcher in the Centre for Maternal and Child Health at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences at City, University of London. I have a background in psychology, with interests in research on parents’ experiences of care including: high risk pregnancy and care for infants and children with serious health complications. Through my research I have seen the lasting impact that negative birth experiences can have on family wellbeing and mental health and feel proud to work on the INTERSECT study with such an extensive group of researchers aiming to improve care for families in the future.

I am an epidemiologist specialising in the analysis of administrative data and other large datasets. My interests are in health, including social determinants and health inequalities, with a particular interest in pregnancy and childbirth and factors that underlie birth experiences and outcomes.