Gina Wong, PhD

Dr. Gina Wong, Ph.D., is a Registered Psychologist in Alberta, Canada, and a professor at Athabasca University. She specializes in perinatal and reproductive mental health and has researched perinatal mood and anxiety disorders from narrative perspectives. She educates, consults, and trains in the field, which includes working with provisional psychologists to develop this specialization. Dr. Wong is the Vice-President of the Postpartum Support International Canada that launched on World Maternal Mental Health Day in 2022. She also specializes in maternal mental health forensics and serves as an expert witness in Canada. Dr. Wong is actively involved in developing a competency-based model in becoming a perinatal mental health expert witness. She has published 4 books which include editing Moms Gone Mad published by Demeter Press (Wong, 2012) and co-edited Infanticide and Filicide: Foundations in Maternal Mental Health Forensics published by the American Psychiatric Association (Wong & Parnham, 2021). Dr. Wong received the 2023 Media Award from the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta for exceptional contribution to portraying psychological knowledge to the public; the 2022 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Leadership Award; and the 2022 Psychologist of the Year Award from the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta for her work in racial justice and perinatal mental health.