About us

Dr Alain Gregoire initially began his postgraduate training in obstetrics, but on seeing that women with perinatal mental illness were the most ill yet least well cared for, he switched to train in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London. For the past 30 years he has been a Consultant Specialist Perinatal Psychiatrist, during which time he has set up and led multiple specialist perinatal mental health services, and won UK Hospital Doctor of the year and RCPsych Team of the Year awards. He was a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, and has contributed extensively to the development of policy, strategy, guidance and clinical services in the area of parental and infant mental health in the UK and abroad. He was the founder and is President of the UK Maternal Mental Health Alliance, a coalition of over 120 national organisations committed to improving maternal mental health care and outcomes for mothers and their infants, and which has successfully campaigned for over £1bn new government funding for perinatal mental health services across the UK. He works as an advisor to the Princess of Wales, who recently became MMHA patron. He founded the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health, which has similar aims worldwide, with over 25 international member organisations, and has informed the development of successful alliances in many other countries and world regions. Alain has worked extensively in radio, television and film, including the multiple award winning BBC documentary ‘My Baby Psychosis and Me’, and is a presenter for the multiple award winning BBC TV programme ‘Trust Me I’m a Doctor’.

Dr Clare Dolman is a journalist and researcher whose PhD focused on women with bipolar disorder’s decision-making regarding pregnancy and childbirth. She is an Ambassador for Bipolar UK and Co-chair of the Bipolar Commission. She is also Patient and Public Involvement Lead for the Women’s Mental Health Section at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London and lectures on the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ training courses for perinatal psychiatrists. Clare, who has bipolar disorder and suffered a postpartum psychosis after the birth of one of her children, is a trustee of the charities MMHA: Maternal Mental Health Alliance , APP - Action on Postpartum Psychosis and GAMMH : Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health.

Dr Tatiana Taylor Salisbury is a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, and Co-Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health at King's College London. Her research blends human-centred design, systems thinking and implementation science to actively engage communities in the development of scalable and sustainable solutions to positively transform their health, wealth, and relationships. Her fellowship focuses on improving mental health outcomes in Kenyan and Mozambican adolescents during pregnancy and the year after birth through co-design with local communities (https://www.designinmh.com/). She provides technical expertise to the WHO and was an author of the WHO Guide for the integration of perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services published in September 2022 (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240057142).

Dr Lavinia Lumu is a prominent perinatal psychiatrist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She spearheads a pro bono maternal mental health clinic at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg and is an Honorary lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand's Department of Psychiatry. Dr Lumu is currently the President of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health and will be hosting the next biennial conference at Capetown, South Africa in September 2026.

Patricia Trautmann Villalba holds a licentiate and a doctoral degree in psychology from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She is a lecturer, researcher, therapist and supervisor at different clinical and academic institutions in Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy, Argentina and Chile. Her clinical and research work focuses on parental mental health (especially during pregnancy, postpartum and the first 3 years of life), the parent-child relationship and child development, always emphasizing the work with vulnerable and unprotected groups, supporting perinatal mental health in the community and promoting collaboration and joint work between Latin American and European countries. She has received various awards and recognitions individually and with her teams for her scientific work as well for activities for and with the community. She was a member of the board (2005-2019, President 2012-2019) of the German speaking Marcé Society and leads at present the working group “Children of Mentally Ill Parents” of the German speaking Association of Infant Mental Health (GAIMH/WAIMH).

Dr Annette Bauer is Assistant Professor at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research on the economic impacts in the perinatal mental health area and on the return on investment are having major impacts in policy, practice and research nationally and globally, and is Research Excellence Framework Impact Case Study for LSE. Findings of the report on the ‘Costs of perinatal mental health problems’ underpin government decisions to increase public spending in this area in the UK; methodologies have been replicated and findings are used to inform decision-making in many countries. Annette frequently speaks at conferences and meetings about the economic evidence in perinatal mental health, including at All-Party Parliamentary Groups, the Marce Society conference, European Parliament and European Union funded COST action network (RISE-UP PPD).