Louise Howard - Breaking the bias to impact on mental health #IoPPNfestival

Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women’s Mental Health in the Department of Health Service & Population Research at King's College London. Differences in the epidemiology of mental disorders in men and women are well-established. Despite this, it could be argued that until recently mental health research largely ignored sex (and gender) differences, risking undermining of scientific validity and efficiency, and potentially contributing to a failure of health providers to deliver gender-sensitive mental health treatments and services, to the detriment of both men and women. The IoPPN research group Section of Women’s Mental Health have therefore focused on gendered determinants of mental disorders (and other structural determinants) and investigated gender sensitive interventions particularly perinatal mental health treatments and services. In this keynote talk, Professor Howard will discuss some of the group’s recent findings and their impact.