Sheelah Seeley is a Health Visitor and lately a Research Associate at the Winnicott Research Unit, University of Reading . She began training Health Visitors in the detection and management of Postnatal Depression in Cambridge using a programme devised from an earlier study conducted at the Winnicott Research Unit directed by Lynne Murray and Peter Cooper. The evaluation of the outcome the original course was published in Health Visitor 1996. Sheelah has since delivered courses for many NHS Trusts. She has presented at conferences around the UK on the subject of postnatal depression and the challenges it brings to primary healthcare.

Lynne Murray, Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Winnicott Research Unit at the University of Reading. She has extensive experience in the study of the development of the mother-infant relationship and of the impact of PND on mothers and their children, including experience developing and evaluating interventions. She is the current president of the Marcé Society, an international multi-disciplinary society concerned with mental health in the puerperium

Peter Cooper is Professor of Psychopathology at the Winnicott Research Unit at the University of Reading. He has been researching the nature, epidemiology, course and treatment of Postpartum Depression for more than two decades.