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Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH

Co-Principal Investigator, Healthcare Worker Project

Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, is co-principal investigator for the Carolina Center research project Rural and Urban Clinician Well-being and Targeted Improvement Interventions during COVID-19. In this role, she will co-supervise all aspects of the project, including coordinating research activities for data collection, analysis, and dissemination. Dr. Meltzer-Brody is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine and directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders. She is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in perinatal depression. Her research investigates the epidemiologic and biological predictors of perinatal depression, and she leads the MOMS GENES app—the largest global genetic study of postpartum depression. Dr. Meltzer-Brody also served as the academic Principal Investigator for novel clinical trials developing an effective (now FDA-approved) new pharmacologic treatment for postpartum depression (brexanolone).