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Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, AM FAHMS, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre. Professor Kulkarni specialises in the area of women's mental health. She has written about Premenstrual syndrome, using hormones to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression in women. Professor Kulkarni discusses the importance of RU Okay Day, the impact of Covid-19 stress, particularly on woman, and the latest data from research being undertaken by Monash University. In the context of RU Okay Day and World Suicide Prevention Day we also discuss Suicide Prevention. Professor Kulkarni also provides strategies for starting conversations about our mental health and how we can maintain well-being in an environment of added stress from lockdowns and social and emotional impacts of Covid-19.