Dr. Deepika Goyal, PhD, MS, FNP

Dr. Goyal is a professor of nursing in the Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San José State University. She oversees the Family Nurse Practitioner program and teaches courses in the graduate and doctoral program. She also maintains a clinical faculty practice as a nurse practitioner in the OB/GYN department at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Goyal is passionate about maternal mental health, specifically among women of Asian American descent. Dr. Goyal’s research adds to the postpartum mental health narrative regarding Asian American women’s experience, mental health help-seeking behavior, and preferred management of mood and anxiety disorders. Her research findings provide clinicians with the much-needed information they need to provide culturally-informed care in an effort to promote optimal maternal-child well-being outcomes.