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The Oxford Centre for Women’s Mental Health is a ground-breaking partnership between the university’s Department of Psychiatry, the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health (NDWRH), along with colleagues across the University, including the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in the Humanities Division.
Funded by the Oxford Medical Sciences Division’s Strategic Research Fund, it will be led by a new Professor of Women’s Mental Health, the first post of its kind at Oxford, which is being advertised now.
The centre was the brainchild of Heads of Department Professor Belinda Lennox in Psychiatry and Professor Krina Zondervan at NDWRH, who identified a gap in research, despite considerable expertise in related areas across the university.
The centre’s goal will be to produce impactful interdisciplinary research that increases understanding of women’s mental health, and influences policy and practice both locally and globally. It will bring together expertise from medical, social, economic, cultural and biological sciences to design new prevention strategies, interventions and treatments.
More than 500 million globally are experiencing a mental disorder, while suicide is the leading cause of death among new mothers in the UK.
Read the full story on the Department of Psychiatry website.