Scaling digital technologies in perinatal mental health – Introducing STePPS CRE and MumMoodBooster example in Australia 

GOLTC Global Perinatal Mental Health Interest Group webinar

Date: 18th of February, 2025

Time: 9:00am-10:00am GMT

Link: Register to join on Zoom

GOLTC and STePPS CRE are collaborating to deliver a series of impactful webinars, fostering knowledge exchange and innovation in digital mental health. This webinar initiative underscores their shared commitment to driving progress, supporting early career researchers, and shaping the future of scalable digital technologies through collective expertise and engagement.

We are pleased to invite you to our first webinar Introducing STePPS CRE and MumMoodBooster in Australia: Transferable Lessons for Scaling Digital Technologies and Next Steps featuring Professor Jeannette Milgrom. This webinar will examine how perinatal digital health programs are making a significant impact in Australia and their global potential to revolutionize mental health care.

Join us to gain valuable insights into the strategies behind MumMoodBooster successful rollout, discuss the challenges and opportunities of scaling digital technologies, and engage in a forward-looking conversation about the next steps for advancing digital health technologies globally. This webinar offers a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals and researchers to connect and share knowledge, driving the future of scaling digital interventions.

Professor Jeannette Milgrom is Professor of Psychology, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne and was previously also Director of Clinical and Health Psychology at Austin Health in Melbourne. Jeannette established and became the Executive Director of the Parent-Infant Research Institute (PIRI), focusing on high-risk infants, ante and postnatal depression and anxiety, screening and developing psychological treatments for mothers, fathers and the mother-baby relationship. She has had international recognition for her work. She was a previous President of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health (2014-2016) and was the International Conference Chair in 2016 ( Melbourne). In 2018 she was recognized as a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.  Her work with postnatal depression increasingly focuses on delivering public health initiatives and developing digital intervention programs. She remains a prolific researcher and was recently successful at being awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence (CRE). 

The webinar will cover:

1. Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).

2. Introduction to the GOLTC Global Perinatal Mental Health Interest Group (Annette Bauer, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK)

3. Presentation: Introducing STePPS CRE and MumMoodBooster in Australia: Transferable Lessons for Scaling Digital Technologies and Next Steps (Professor Jeannette Milgrom AM, Parent Infant Research Institute, Austin Health, Australia)

4. Discussion: What is the Global Perinatal Mental Health interest group about? How can we support capacity building? (Annette Bauer, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK)