Event description

Mindgardens is pleased to present the fourth edition of the MindLabs Psychosis Webinar series for 2026, Advances in women’s mental health, presented by Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM.

Speaker

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM is Director of Monash University’s HER Centre Australia and Alfred Health’s Multidisciplinary Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc). She is also Head of the Monash University School of Translational Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Professor Kulkarni graduated from Monash University medical school and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). She is nationally and internationally recognised for her pioneering hormone and trauma work in women’s mental health research. She founded and directs two large psychiatry research groups and, as of 2021, she developed and directs Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health, Melbourne. Professor Kulkarni was awarded the Order of Australia for her service to psychiatry in 2018 and two of the College’s most prestigious awards in 2024, for her research and for clinical service.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

1. Understand the role of trauma and mental illness in women.
2. Understand the role of gonadal hormones and mental illness in women.
3. Consider new treatments for women with mental illness.