Professor Julie Jomeen is the Executive Dean Health and Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. Julie joined SCU in 2020 from the University of Hull, UK Professor Jomeen is a nurse and a midwife, with over 20 years of both clinical and academic experience. Her expertise is in midwifery and maternity, Julie completed her own PhD in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, UK. She led a Research Group for Maternal, Reproductive Health for over 10 years at the University of Hull, UK, leading to successful award of grant funding including from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and charitable organisations. A key focus of her work is perinatal mental health (PMH) and psychological health in childbearing women. A programme of work which has led to a strong collaboration in national and international research, service development work and practitioner training initiatives. Julie’ s work has focussed on ensuring that women across the childbearing journey receive attention to their psychological as well as physical health and that women with PMH problems irrespective of location have effective assessment and access to the right care at the right time, by appropriately skilled practitioners, optimising their maternity journey and outcomes. More recently she has focussed on the conceptualisation of perinatal wellbeing and how such models might support women. Julie was on the management committee of an EU COST Action for Post-partum depression; a member of a second COST Action focussed on traumatic birth and co-applicant on a newly successful COST Action Maternal Perinatal Stress and Adverse Outcomes in the Offspring. She has supported over 20 PhD students to successful completion and examined over 35 PhD theses. Julie is a Visiting Professor at Soochow University, China Julie has had a career with a key focus on research leadership. She has served on several national grant awarding panels and was the Vice Chair of the NIHR Non-medical Clinical Academic Fellowship Scheme prior to leaving the UK.