Dr Simone Honikman is Director of the Perinatal Mental Health Project, and Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town.

Simone is a medical doctor and has been designing perinatal mental health services and leading perinatal mental health research projects in South Africa for more than 20 years. She has co-developed the WHO guidelines on perinatal mental health. She builds the capacity of practitioners and is a co-founder of the African Maternal Mental Health Alliance.