Luciana Berger is Chair of the MMHA and served as an MP for almost a decade. During her time in the Commons, she held prominent frontbench and backbench roles, including as the first-ever Shadow Cabinet Member for Mental Health. Luciana was also a leading member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee and presented the findings of the Committee’s inquiry into children and young people’s mental health to parliament.

Today she serves on the advisory board of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, and is Vice-President of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

An award-winning campaigner, Luciana has long called for increased awareness, parity of esteem, and improvement of mental health services. A keen photographer, Luciana is Mum to Amélie and Zion.

Kate is the vice-chair of the MMHA and has been a trustee since 2018.  She started her career as a children’s nurse and health visitor becoming Deputy Chief Nurse for England in Department of Health (2000-2006) leading on public health and primary care nursing. She led the introduction of the Family Nurse Partnership programme for teenage mothers across England and was awarded a CBE in 2011. Today she is actively involved in climate change issues where she lives in Suffolk and remains committed to serving marginalised women and children.

Sakina is a Trustee at MMHA and first joined 2017 as a Champion. Having been redirected from her previous career as an actress due to her own lived experience during the perinatal period, she now works clinically and strategically in Perinatal Mental Health at CNWL NHS Trust and her own private practice.

She is passionate about co-production, equity and inclusion and how perceived gaps between service users and services can be bridged for enhanced experiences and outcomes.

She is also a Director at Make Birth Better and a mum to two lovely young humans.

Clare Dolman is a researcher and mental health advocate. Her PhD at King’s College London focused on women with bipolar disorder’s decision-making around pregnancy and childbirth, a subject she knew about as she has Bipolar herself and experienced a postpartum psychosis after the birth of her first child.

Clare was Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead for the Women’s Mental Health Section at King’s College for a decade and is currently a consultant on various research projects in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh involving women’s mental health, especially in relation to hormonal events such as childbirth and menopause. She recently received the Patient and Public Involvement Award from the International Society for Affective Disorders.

She is Co-Chair pf the Bipolar Commission and an Ambassador and former Chair of Bipolar UK. She is also a trustee of the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health (GAMMH) and APP – Action on Postpartum Psychosis.

As a former GP, Henry has a solid understanding of the constraints imposed on many of those who work in perinatal mental health and allied healthcare settings. He also has personal experience of postpartum psychosis in his own family. In recent years he has drawn on this experience to contribute to research and deliver training for a wide range of healthcare professionals at national and regional conferences. Henry is particularly passionate about improving understanding of the impact of mental illness on partners and the whole family.

Yasmin is a specialist registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, practicing in London.

She’s committed to resolving healthcare inequalities particularly those experienced by women due to their ethnicity or socio-economic background. Her commitment is at a national and global level. She advocates for required healthcare policies based on her clinical expertise and practice. One of Yasmin’s primary goals is for contraception provision for women, especially after giving birth, to be improved.

Yasmin’s approach in her clinical practice is a holistic one, recognising that a woman’s mental and physical wellbeing are interconnected. She knows that ensuring women have full access to healthcare that supports their wellbeing and improves their welfare is essential for a society to thrive.

She brings her passion, commitment, clinical and personal experience to her role as a trustee to the board of MMHA.

Lisa is a Global People & Support Manager for an NGO. Lisa leads on global HR and IT policies and procedures, working with HR leads in six countries.

Over 15 years ago Lisa found her passion in the charity sector, initially working for a young people’s charity, and volunteering within her local community.

From personal experience and previous volunteering with young mothers, Lisa strongly believes in the importance of diverse representation and self-challenge in public services.

Dr Alain Gregoire is the former Chair, and now Honorary President of the MMHA.

Alain is a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health and has contributed to the development of policy, guidance, and clinical services in the UK and abroad. He is determined to ensure that all women have access to care for their mental health which is at least as good as the care available for their physical health during pregnancy and postnatally.

Dr Alain Gregoire is a retired Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He set up and leads the national award-winning Hampshire Perinatal Mental Health Service, which provides comprehensive integrated community and inpatient services to women with severe mental health problems during pregnancy and postnatally. He has conducted research into perinatal services, the mental health of mothers in prisons, and other aspects of perinatal mental health. He began his postgraduate medical training in obstetrics, but on finding that the illest women, who also received the worst care, were those with mental health problems, he switched to psychiatry and completed his training at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry.

Emily is the former CEO of the MMHA, and Development Coordinator of the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health (GAMMH). Following her experience of postnatal depression after the birth of her son in 2009, Emily founded, with her partner, the campaigning organisation ‘Break the Silence – PNI’. In this capacity, Emily attended the first meeting of what became known as the MMHA. She has been instrumental in its funding and growth to a 100-plus-strong coalition of UK organisations with the shared vision to see all women across the UK get access to consistent and quality care and support for their mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.