Persevered: Bridging Personal & Scientific Insights to Advance Perinatal Mental Healthcare Policy & Practice

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Please join us for a conversation with Kara Zivin, PhD, moderated by Professor Thomas Mackie, on Friday, October 23 from 10-11AM in Goessmann 250!

Dr. Zivin will provide both scientific and personal insights on perinatal mental healthcare in the United States. Dr. Zivin will integrate understandings from her own journey through severe depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy while highlighting scientific insights and the urgent need for greater awareness and support for perinatal mental health. Dr. Zivin will also integrate findings from her own research that examines the impacts of federal and state behavioral health policy changes on clinical and economic mental health outcomes among perinatal individuals and infants.

Dr. Zivin is a professor of psychiatry, obstetrics, and gynecology, and health management and policy at the University of Michigan, and recently published a memoir, Persevered: A Maternal Mental Health Memoir.