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Anne Buist
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Professor Anne Buist
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, based at Austin Health, and has 35 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry including being director of mother-baby units for much of this time. Currently she oversees an outreach team that works to improve attachment and child outcomes where parent(s) have a severe mental illness. She was director of the beyond blue PND initiative which resulted in Australia wide screening for perinatal depression and anxiety. Other research includes child abuse as a risk factor for perinatal depression, and drugs in breastmilk. She continues to work with Protective Services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. Professor Buist also writes fiction, with two novels to her name: The Glass House and The Oasis.
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, based at Austin Health, and has 35 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry including being director of mother-baby units for much of this time. Currently she oversees an outreach team that works to improve attachment and child outcomes where parent(s) have a severe mental illness. She was director of the beyond blue PND initiative which resulted in Australia wide screening for perinatal depression and anxiety. Other research includes child abuse as a risk factor for perinatal depression, and drugs in breastmilk. She continues to work with Protective Services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. Professor Buist also writes fiction, with two novels to her name: The Glass House and The Oasis.
