
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association.
Professor Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at UCL since 1985. He first joined as Head of Department, a role he stayed in for 26 years overseeing the growth of the Department from 7 to 170 people. Fundamental to this growth was a vision of needed research on social determinants of health and health inequalities.
He set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health: the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health.
Professor Marmot chaired the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008.
In February 2020, Professor Marmot and the IHE team, launched the ‘Marmot Review 10 Years On’, which serves as an update to the ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ review. In December 2020 they published ‘Build Back Fairer: The COVID 19 Marmot Review‘

Dr Alain Gregoire
Dr Alain Gregoire initially began his postgraduate training in obstetrics, but on seeing that women with perinatal mental illness were the most ill yet least well cared for, he switched to train in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London. For the past 30 years he has been a Consultant Specialist Perinatal Psychiatrist, during which he has set up and led multiple specialist perinatal mental health services, and won UK Hospital Doctor of the year and Royal College of Psychiatrists Team of the Year awards. He was a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, and has contributed extensively to the development of policy, strategy, guidance and clinical services in the area of parental and infant mental health in the UK and internationally.
He was the founder and is President of the UK Maternal Mental Health Alliance, a coalition of over 125 national organisations committed to improving maternal mental health care and outcomes for mothers and their infants, and which has successfully campaigned for over £1.3billion of new government funding for perinatal mental health services, now delivering high quality and equitable care to thousands of women and babies across the UK. He has worked closely with several UK ministers in successive Governments, and has been invited to speak to parliamentary meetings and ministers in Belgium, Bhutan, France, Sweden, Spain, Zimbabwe, and the EU; he is an advisor to the Princess of Wales, who recently became MMHA patron. He founded the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health, which has similar aims worldwide, with over 25 international member organisations, and has informed the development of successful alliances in many other countries and world regions.
Alain has worked extensively in radio, television and film, including the multiple award winning BBC documentary ‘My Baby Psychosis and Me’, and is a presenter for the multiple award winning BBC TV programme ‘Trust Me I’m a Doctor’. He is trilingual in English, French an

Dr Annette Bauer
Dr Annette Bauer is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Her research is driven by a desire to develop and apply methodologies that can produce evidence and knowledge useful to those making or informing decisions about how resources are spent to improve population wellbeing. She has been working as an advisor to the government, and government and non-government bodies such as the Office for Health Inequalities and Disparities, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Royal Foundation and presented to All Party Parliamentary Groups, European Parliament and other political events. Annette is Trustee of two charities: Action on Postpartum Psychosis and Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health.
Annette has led and contributed to over 50 economic evaluation and analysis of complex, prevention-focused mental health and social care programmes in the UK and Europe and globally. She has successfully gained grant funding from National Institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research, Austrian Ministry of Health, international and national charities, including Open Society Foundations, Mencap, and Nesta.
Her research on cost of perinatal mental health problems had major impact on policy in the UK and was part of the LSE Research Excellence Framework case.
Annette has published her work in over 60 peer-reviewed articles, including in high impact academic journals, such as Lancet Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorder and Psychological Medicine, and presents at national and international conferences and events.

Dr Camilla Rosan
Camilla is a consultant perinatal clinical psychologist and psychosexual couples therapist. She is a mum of two (aged 1 and 7) and lives with her partner and Westie near the coast in the South East of England.
Camilla is currently the chair of the British Psychological Society’s Faculty of Perinatal Psychology and works at the Anna Freud (anational family mental health charity) as a researcher leading the Perinatal & Early Childhood Clinical Research Unit. As part of her clinical research work, she leads alarge NIHR funded randomised controlled trial that is testing the clinical and cost effectiveness of Circle of Security Parenting
Groups in perinatal mental health services in the UK. Camilla has recently set up a small private practice which brings together her perinatal clinical work with psychosexual couples therapy. She also works for her local health board as a service user lead within the Perinatal Pelvic Health Service transformation programme.

Sandra Igwe
Through The Motherhood Group, Sandra delivers impactful community-based events like Black Mum Fest, maternal training workshops, and the Black Maternal Health Conference UK. She spearheads national campaigns such as Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK and oversees culturally sensitive programmes commissioned by NHS England. The organisation also maintains a community hub in Lambeth Town Hall, providing a safe space for Black mothers and families.
Sandra’s influence extends to policy-making as the Co-Chair of the National Inquiry into Racial Injustice in Maternity Care and a Trustee of Birthrights Charity. Her book, «My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System», amplifies the voices of Black mothers and challenges healthcare professionals to listen, believe, and understand their experiences.
As a sought-after speaker, Sandra has shared her expertise with notable corporations including Facebook (now Meta), Dove, MBRRACE-UK, Nike Women, and UBS. She has also delivered powerful speeches on maternal health for Black mothers at the House of Lords and on national television networks such as Sky, ITV, and CNN.
Sandra’s work has been commissioned by organisations such as NHS England and the Southwark Maternity Commission, engaging thousands of Black women to improve maternal outcomes.
Her innovative approaches and tireless advocacy have earned her recognition from both Vogue UK and Forbes as one of their ‘Influential Women of the Year’.