Dr Charlene Holt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Parent-Infant Research Institute (PIRI) and a trained psychologist.

She completed a Doctor of Clinical Psychology at La Trobe University in Melbourne in 2007 and joined PIRI in 2006.

Her research focuses on the co-development and evaluation of treatment programs, including digital interventions, to improve mother–infant relationships, as well as outcomes related to antenatal, postnatal and paternal depression.

Charlene has also contributed to the development and evaluation of strategies to improve treatment uptake, including an integrated e-screening and clinical decision support system, and a motivational interviewing intervention to increase help-seeking.

She has extensive experience conducting randomised controlled trials, including cluster trials, spanning project conceptualisation through to publication. She currently leads PIRI’s mother–infant intervention research stream.