Prof Jayashri Kulkarni

I graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1988. I commenced my appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred and Monash University in 2002.

I am the founder and director of two research centres – HER Centre Australia and the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc). I am also Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Monash University – Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences and the Head of Women’s Mental Health at Cabrini Health.

I have conducted ground-breaking clinical research and am internationally acknowledged as a leader and expert in the field of women’s mental health, in particular, for my innovative work on reproductive hormones and mental illness. My world-first research in hormones and mental health has led to the development of new treatments for women with mental ill health. With colleagues, I developed and established Australia’s first women’s mental health hospital at Cabrini Health in September 2021.

In 2019, I have received an Order of Australia (AM) for my services to psychiatry.