GenMind: transgenerational intervention for mental health is  a multi-disciplinary group of researchers using a range of methods and employing a lifespan approach but with a particular focus on the preconception and perinatal periods. We view these periods as windows of opportunity to optimise mental health outcomes and prevent adverse developmental trajectories in offspring.

Some of us are clinicians and some of our group contribute lived experience expertise. We also work closely with a range of stakeholders. This supports our goal of ensuring that our work is both policy orientated and clinically relevant.

We have a range of external collaborating centres and at King's College London we work closely with Maternal And Child Health Systems and Policy Research Group, King's Women's Mental Health and the LIFE-MAP Lab. We are part of the King's College London Parent and Infant Mental Health Research Network. Working at King's in this area and keen to join our network? Get in touch!

We are always open to new collaborations, to discussing potential PhD supervision and to those who wish to volunteer with our research group.

External Researchers

• Dr Polly Cohen, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, Specialist Registrar Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Dr Clevanne Julce, Visiting Researcher, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
• Dr Sana Rehman, Academic Foundation Doctor, Guy's and St Thomas'​ NHS Foundation Trust
• Sivan Rubinstein, London-based choreographer, director, and researcher
• Dr Sonya Rudra, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist 
• Dr Demelza Smeeth, Senior Research Fellow, UCL

Alumni

• Meklit Gurmesa, MSc in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology (King's College London), 2024-25
• Sarah Ridd, Master of Public Health (University of Western Ontario), 2025
• Katherine Sabin, PhD student (King's College London), 2021-25
  • Thesis: Parenting support following discharge from NICU
• Chivon Cheung, MSc in Mental Health Studies (King's College London) 2023-24

Our funders

• National Institute for Health and Care Research
• UK Research and Innovation
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Wellbeing of Women
• Inkfish

Our collaborators

• Fatherhood Solutions
• Everyturn Mental Health
• Center for the Transition to Parenthood at Columbia University
• Lifeline for Families at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
• 2000 Stories: Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study