It has been just over a month since our first INTERSECT conference, which was held on the 21st July 2026! The conference brought together international researchers to present their work on childbirth-related PTSD and other perinatal mental health conditions. The event was well attended with 148 attendees, some of whom described the conference as “incredible”, “well organised” and “interesting”. One attendee stated the conference had led to them feeling “inspired and invigorat

Our second international paper examined symptom presentation of CB-PTSD across 31 countries. Previous research on CB-PTSD has mostly come from Western countries, and research about other traumas suggest that symptom presentation may vary across countries. Therefore, our study explored whether CB-PTSD symptom presentations are similar across countries, whether symptoms are reported with equivalent frequency, and whether their inter-relationships remain stable across different

We are thrilled to announce that our first INTERSECT International paper was published in November 2025. Titled " Cross-national risk factors for childbirth-related PTSD: Findings from the INTERSECT study ", this paper explores risk factors across countries including pre-existing vulnerability, pregnancy, birth, and infant-related factors. The research found that negative birth experience was the strongest predictor of CB-PTSD. Ongoing maternal complications predicted both CB