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Speaking & Media

Invited Lectures & Talks
  • University of Melbourne – Healing & Homecoming: Critical reflections on psychology

  • University of Melbourne, Women's Founders Network – Building values-led health ventures

  • Monash University – Various lectures on cultural safety in mental health and systems reform

  • Swinburne University – Sleep Psychology: The art & science of helping people dleep

  • Behavioural Sleep Medicine Community of Practice – Sleep health & culture

  • Cairnmillar Institute – Sleep Health: Essential skills & knowledge for clinical psychologists 

Conference Presentations
  • Australian Association of Infant Mental Health & Marce Society – Perinatal insomnia: A public health priority – 2025

  • Australian Association of Infant Mental Health & Marce Society – Treating perinatal insomnia: A clinical trial of cognitive behavioural therapy & light dark therapy – 2025

  • Asia-Pacific Conference on Women's Mental Health – Postpartum Sleep: What we know and what we can do – 2023

  • Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) – In Bloom: Reflections and recommendations for supporting emerging researchers within the eating disorders landscape – 2024

  • ANZAED – Looking out and in: Embedding research and evaluation within an eating disorder organisation through academic partnership – 2024

  • ANZAED – Eating Disorder Safe Principles: Thinking big and wide – 2024. 

  • Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Eating Disorders Think Tank – Feeding back and in: Integrating research & evaluation within a community eating disorder service - 2024

  • Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) and the Australia and New Zealand Sleep Science Association (ANZSSA) – The Dementia Wellbeing Study: A co-designed trial of a multimodal sleep intervention for people with dementia and their carers – 2022

  • ASA and ANZSSA – Longitudinal changes in sleep timing and chronotype from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum – 2022

  • ASA and ANZSSA – Cognitive behavioural therapy and light dark therapy for postpartum insomnia symptoms: A randomised controlled trial – 2021

  • SLEEP Conference (USA) – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Light Dark Therapy for Postpartum Insomnia Symptoms: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial – 2021

Media & Interviews

​​​​I respect the tenacity, wisdom and endurance of Australia's First Peoples and pay my respects to Elders past and present.​​

© Dr Sumedha Verma 2026

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