Sara Weeks

Dr Sara Weeks is a psychiatrist specialising in perinatal conditions. She works in both the private and public sectors in New Zealand, and is lead clinician for Lotofale Pacific Island Mental Health Service with the Auckland District Health Board. She is also involved in research on postnatal depression in Pacific Island women, and teaches perinatal psychiatry for the Post-graduate Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.

Since 2011, Sara has been a member of the Pacific Society for Reproductive Health, and she has previously been an executive member of the Australasian branch of the Marcé Society – an international society for the promotion of mental health in women and families in relation to childbearing.

Sara has contributed to Little Treasures and Parenting magazines and appeared on television in New Zealand and the Pacific. She is a mother of three and grandmother of one.