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Congratulations to our chair, Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody for your WCHL and Chapelboro.com “Hometown Hero” Recognition! “Our work at UNC is public service, and it’s been enormously rewarding to me to try and intervene with moms and families to have a meaningful impact,” she said.

July 9, 2020

Chair, Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody speaks with the New York times about the anxieties around new parenting, especially during a pandemic, “For some mothers, the pandemic worsens their fears. “Mothers may be focused on contamination or exposure to Covid.”

July 7, 2020

Department chair, Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody speaks with the New York Times about Fear Increase in Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders

May 28, 2020

Dr. Mary Kimmel contributes to Liebert Publishers Roundtable on health equity: Access to Care During a Global Health Crisis, with special attention to mental health and the needs of perinatal women.

May 14, 2020

Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody spoke to the TODAY show about postpartum depression and COVID-19

April 22, 2020

UNC Psychiatrist Dr. Mary Kimmel shares her expertise with Postpartum Depression with ABC11

March 3, 2020

UNC Psychiatry Asks 100,000 Moms to Join National Postpartum Depression Study

March 2, 2020
Mom Genes Fight PPD Destigmatizes Silent Disease in New Video   CHAPEL HILL, NC — March 4, 2020 — Postpartum depression (PPD) is the No. 1  cause of maternal mortality from suicide. PPD can have a range of dangerous consequences and is widespread, affecting one in seven mothers. Yet, symptoms...

Our chair, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, and director of UNC’s Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, was quoted in this first-person perspective on new parenting and when normal worrying develops into something else.

February 11, 2020