Margaret Bublitz (Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Medicine) has been selected by The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar.

Bublitz, a faculty member at Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School, is a clinical psychologist in perinatal mental health. She has established and directed integrated behavioral health services in women’s primary care and obstetrics and gynecology at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island. A clinician scientist, Bublitz studies the pathways linking psychological stress before and during pregnancy to adverse perinatal health, as well as novel psychological approaches to prevent and treat obstetric complications.

Backed by a Fulbright Global Scholar Award, Bublitz will research maternal mental health in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Spending two months in each country, she will interview health care providers, policymakers and community members about best practices in maternal mental health, while also exchanging knowledge about mental health services at primary care at OB/GYN offices.