Simone Honikman
Perinatal Mental Health Project, University of Cape Town
Simone Honikman
Associate Professor Simone Honikman is a medical doctor (University of Cape Town -UCT) with clinical experience in Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Psychiatry and a Masters degree in Maternal and Child Health (UCT). She is founding director of the 23-year old Perinatal Mental Health Project (www.pmhp.za.org) based at the Centre for Public Mental Health, UCT. The Project has received formal commendation by the World Health Organization. She designs and conducts training for a wide range of healthcare and social service providers and consults to health policy, clinical guidelines development and programme processes within South Africa. She is involved in advocacy for perinatal mental health in South Africa and other low resource settings. Simone received the international Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship, has published academic papers, book chapters, editorials and training manuals.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | African Union; South Africa; |
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| Topics | Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care justice; Care management; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Cash benefits; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Gender and care; Global Maternal Mental Health; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Implementation; Intergenerational approaches; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC utitilisation; LTC Workforce; Perinatal mental health; Person-centered care; Primary Health Care; Risk in Long-Term Care; Science communication; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Stigma and discrimination; Survey measures; Universal design and LTC; |
| Methods | Assessment tool development; Case studies; Co-production methods; Cost analysis; Economic evaluation; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Interviews; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Participatory research methods; Pilot study; Prevalence study; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Thematic analysis; Theory of Change; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Global Perinatal Mental Health; |
| Website | http://www.pmhp.za.org |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-7045-5532 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tt7mQvkAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=8242021223475558914&oi=ao |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-honikman-57504ab4/ | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/perinatal-mental-health-project-91a03794 | |
| Research interests | Health systems strenghtening Health economics Social determinants of maternal mental health Implementation Science
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