Research Projects

PIRI currently has several ongoing research projects and has evaluated a number of treatment and early intervention programs.

PIRI's current research projects include:

• Beating the Blues Before Birth (Funded by the MBF Foundation)
• CommunityHUGS (Funded by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
• PremieStart (Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC])
• Web-PPD (Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]).

Treatment and early intervention programs that have been developed and evaluated by PIRI include:

• Getting Ahead of Postnatal Depression
• BabyHUGS
• Towards Parenthood
• PremieHUGS