​Conference Programme 

September 27th, 2022
 
9.30 -9.40 CET             Introductions
9:40-10:30 CET            Welcome - Presentation of the RISEUP-PPD project and structure
  • Ana Ganho, PhD Action Chair
  • Sandra Nakic Rados, PhD, Action Vice-Chair
 
10:30-12:30 CET          The impact of COVID-19 on mental health systems and services
  • Chair: Claire Wilson, King’s College London, UK
  • Mervi Jokinen, European Midwives Association: "Maternity care during COVID: was anyone left behind."
  • Simone Honikman, University of Cape Town, South Africa: “COVID and perinatal mental health: Challenges and opportunities from South Africa.”
  • Nerea Almeda, Loyola University, Spain: “Coping with Psychological Impact of COVID-19: An Analysis of International Online Documents and Recommendations.”
 
14:00-16:00 CET          Current evidence on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal mental health
  • Chair:   Emma Motrico, University Loyola, Seville, Spain.
  • Vera Mateus, Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal: “Rates of depressive and anxiety symptoms in the perinatal period during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
  • Ana Mesquita, University of Minho, Portugal: “The impact of governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal mental health: A Riseup-PPD COVID-19 task force study.”
  • Alkistis Skalkidou, Uppsala University, Sweden: “Mental health among pregnant women during the pandemic in Sweden– a mixed methods approach using data from the Mom2B mobile application.”
  • Miguel Cordero, University of Chile, Chile: “Social Determinants of Perinatal Mental Health within the Chilean Maternal & Infant Cohort Study II (ChiMINCs II)”


September 28th, 2022
 
10:00-12:00 CET          Ethics and health care in crises
  • Chair:   Susanne Uusitalo, University of Turku, Finland                        
  • Laura Puumala, University of Turku, Finland: “Emergency Ethics and Moral Stress.”
  • ​Sakari Ilomäki, Tampere University, Finland: “Client participation as interaction in the (post-)pandemic era - Clinical activities, care relationships and ethics.”
  • Katarina Savic Vujovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia: “COVID-19 in pregnant women: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas.”
  • Lena Yri Engelsen, LF 1001 days, Norway: “The critical 1001 days in the time of crisis. Lest not forget.”


14:00-16:00 CET          Innovations in mental health assessment methods and interventions
  • Chair: Sarah Kittel Schneider, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
  • Ana Ganho, University of Coimbra, Portugal: “Non-invasive brain stimulation in perinatal mental health: current status and future directions.”
  • María de la Fe Rodríguez Muñoz, UNED, Spain: “Healthy Moms and Babies Preventive Psychological    Intervention Application: A pathway to prevent PPD.”
  • Konstantina Pagoni, Uppsala University, Sweden: “Mom2B: predicting perinatal depression using digital phenotyping and machine learning, a mobile app-based research study.”
  • Babette Bais, Delft, the Netherlands: “Bright light therapy for antepartum depression.”
 
 
September 29th, 2022
 
11:00-13:00 CET          The impact of adversity on maternal mental health and neurodevelopment            
  • Chair: Ana Mesquita, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Jodi Pawluski, University of Rennes, France: “The neurobiology of perinatal mental illness.”
  • Hilmar Bijma, Erasmus University, the Netherlands: “The impact of stress and other early childhood adversities on brain development during pregnancy and in the first two years of life.”
  •  Rafael A. Caparrós González, University of Granada, Spain: “Maternal Prenatal Stress before and during the COVID-19.”
  •  Alain Gregoire: “Complex-PTSD in the perinatal period: challenges and opportunities for research and practice.”
 
14:30-16:30 CET          Addressing perinatal mental health in migrant and refugee women                
  • Chair: Laurence Van Den Abeele-Bosteels, Make Mothers Matter, Belgium
  • Magdalena Chrzan-Dętkoś (University of Gdańsk, Poland), Maria Rodriguez-Muñoz (UNED, Spain) and Liudmyla Krupelnytska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine): “Good Practices in Perinatal Mental Health during the war in Ukraine crisis: A narrative synthesis from Riseup-PPD.”
  • Liudmyla Krupelnytska & Olha Morozova-Larina, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: “Perinatal experience of women during the war in Ukraine: a study using in-depth interviews.”
  • Magdalena Chrzan-Dętkoś, University of Gdańsk, Poland: “Reflections from the unexpected lesson of suddenly becoming a host country: Challenges and first solutions in the field of perinatal mental                                                      health.”
  • Maria Marti Castaner, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: “Promoting maternal mental health among immigrant and refugee women: A case study of Denmark's home visiting program.”                               
  • Lena Verdeli, Columbia University, New York, USA.