PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN

Dr. DEEPIKA GOYAL

Dr. Goyal is a family nurse practitioner and professor of nursing in the Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San José State University. She oversees the Family Nurse Practitioner program and teaches courses in the graduate program. Dr. Goyal is passionate about maternal mental health, specifically among women of Asian Indian descent. Dr. Goyal’s research adds to the postpartum mental health narrative regarding Asian American women’s experience, mental health help-seeking behavior, and preferred management of mood and anxiety disorders. Her research findings provide clinicians with the much needed information they need to provide culturally-informed care in an effort to promote optimal maternal-child well-being outcomes. Dr. Goyal also maintains a clinical faculty practice, working as a nurse practitioner in an outpatient OB/GYN clinic.