In June of this year, Maree Foley completed her term as Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives and handed the baton to Jane Barlow.
Jane brings to this role an extensive range of research, writing, and publishing skills in our field and extensive grass-roots relationships with WAIMH members worldwide. She is currently the President of AIMH UK, the UK WAIMH affiliate. She has also recently completed a four-year term on the WAIMH Executive Board as the Affiliate Council Representative for WAIMH.
Jane is a Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford. Jane’s primary research interests are the role of early parenting in the aetiology of mental health problems and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving parenting practices during pregnancy and the postnatal period.
She also undertakes research to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing child abuse.
She is also an Associate Editor for the Infant Mental Health Journal and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. She has undertaken several national/international roles, including being Editor-in-Chief of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal and the Social Welfare Group of the Campbell Collaboration.
On behalf of WAIMH and the WAIMH Perspectives team, we welcome Jane to this role. We look forward to her leadership in steering the ongoing development and growth of this longstanding and ever-evolving WAIMH publication.
