We are delighted to share an exciting funded PhD studentship through the NIHR Maternity Disparities Consortium, based at Sheffield Hallam University.
The student will develop a conceptual model linking maternal PMH to short and long term impacts on the woman’s health, the impacts on children and families over their life-courses as well as impacts beyond the health services e.g. on employment, life opportunities of the woman and adult family members, education and life opportunities of children and broader impacts such as those on child and adult social care and crime and criminal justice. The project will build on the work by Bauer et al 2025, which has considered outcomes that might be included in an economic evaluation of perinatal mental ill health. An incidence cost of illness model of PMH will be developed. The aim of this will be to scope data connectivity from existing relevant data sources and to frame a model to identify, quantify and value the different impacts and understand how costs of illness may vary according to the characteristics of women affected. The model will also be used to explore ‘what if’ analyses to investigate the impact of hypothetical interventions to prevent or manage PMH in order to help guide future research efforts.
Primary supervisor: Dr Frankie Fair
Interdisciplinary supervisory Team: Dr Frankie Fair, Professor Luke Vale, Dr Orlanda Harvey, Prof Susan Hampshaw [Mentors: Professor Hora Soltani & Ms Katrina Baker]
You can find out more about this project here