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Professor Jeannette Milgrom, is an Australian researcher at 

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 * 1 Early life and education
 * 2 Work
 * 3 Personal
 * 4 Awards and honors
 * 5 See also
 * 6 Citations
 * 7 References
 * 8 External links

Early life and education[edit source | editbeta]
Jeannette Milgrom start her college at University of Melbourne, studying Bachelor of  Science, and follows with Honours,  PhD  in psychology science.

Work[edit source | editbeta]
2001-now Established Clinical and Health Psychology and Parent-Infant Research Institute (PIRI) in Austin Health in Melbourne, and become director and executive chief until now. PIRI is a hospital department that integrates clinical services, research and teaching. It mainly focus on high-risk infants, ante and postnatal depression, prematurity and developing psychological treatments, and provide evidence-based parent-infant interventions, and also involved in training health professionals how to assess and manage perinatal depression.

2002-2006: Chair of the National Executive of the College of Health Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society ,

1999-2008 Convened the Doctor of Psychology (Health) in University of Melbourne

2010-2011 Chair of beyondblue National Workforce Training and Development Committee

She is currently professor of Psychology, Director, Clinical and Health Psychology, Austin Health, and also adjunct Professor in school of Applied Psychology in Griffith University.

Her major interests include :
 * ante and postnatal depression: She is a leader investigator of a cluster randomised controlled trial of motivational interviewing to find the problem in postnatal depression.
 * Developmental Psychology: She demonstrate improvement in infant brain connectivity (visible on MRI scans) following stress-reduction intervention by parents (Milgrom et al., 2010, Ped Res, 67).
 * Health Psychology
 * premature birth

Due to her work in beyondblue 2002-2006, Australian Government is now funding of $85 million for universal screening for Perinatal Depression.

Awards and honors[edit source | editbeta]
Association :

2004 Fellow, Australian Psychological Society

Member, College of Clinical Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society

Member, College of Health Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society

President-Elect, Marcé Society(International and Australasian Branch) for Perinatal Mental Health

Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

Australian and World Association for Infant Mental Health

Victorian Psychologists Association

The Royal Society of Victoria

Women in Science Enquiry Network Inc (WISENET)

Currently grants :

NHMRC: Improving Neurobehavioural Development in Preterm Infants: Identifying Long-term Benefits of Early Stress Reduction

NHMRC: A Randomised Controlled Trial to Prevent Primigravid Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Web-based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Women with Postpartum Depression.

Family Support Program (FaHCSIA): Happiness, Understanding, Giving and Sharing (HUGS) Playgroups

The beyondblue National Priority Driven Research (NPDR): Early Intervention to Protect the Mother-Infant Relationship Following Postnatal Depression - A Randomised Controlled Trial.

The beyondblue National Priority Driven Research (NPDR): Promoting perinatal mental health and wellbeing: Development and evaluation of screening and intervention programs for both parents, using the Internet and text messages (SMSs)

Australian Rotary Health: Does treating maternal antenatal depression and anxiety prevent adverse infant neurodevelopmental outcomes?

Australian Rotary Health: Help-seeking for postnatal depression as a major public health problem: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing

Australian Research Council, Discovery Research Project: How do parenting and parent-child interactions impact on preschool children’s eating, physical activity habits, and subsequent patterns of weight gain?

Urquhart Charitable Trust: Infant Developmental Outcomes follow Psychological Treatment of Maternal Antenatal Depression Compared to Antidepressant Medication.

Austin Medical Research Foundation(AMRF): Maternal antenatal anxiety and structural Neuriomaging in newborn

She is recipient of 67 research grants and author of 6 books(two translated into Italian), 15 chapters and 106 scientific articles.

References[edit source | editbeta]
1. Pediatric Research (2010) 67, 330–335; Jeannette Milgrom etc

External links[edit source | editbeta]
Category:Australian women scientists

Category:Australia Prize recipients Category:Australian Nobel laureates Category:Companions of the Order of Australia Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Category:Female Fellows of the Royal SocietyCategory:Living people