Professor

Marie Klingberg-Allvin

Institute: Dep of Women and Childrens Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Other affiliation: Dalarna University, Sweden
Research area: Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Research region: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Global
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

About

Marie Klingberg-Allvin, is a midwife, and professor in global reproductive health  at Karolinska Institutet and Dalarna University. She has a PhD in international health from Karolinska Institutet and 20 years’ experience of working within global Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in low resource settings. More specifically, her research area focuses on safe abortion, post abortion care, contraception, and immigrants’ SRH. Parts of her research related to medical abortion and post abortion care has been published in high impact journal and used in the WHO guidelines. She has experience building strategic partnerships with academia and nongovernmental organizations in low-resource settings and working with development cooperation projects.  Being a former director of the midwifery program at Dalarna University (DU) she initiated the development of a model for net-based learning in order to rebuild capacity within midwifery training institutions in Somaliland. This model has further been implemented at 38 academic institutions in Bangladesh. She is a member of the International Board of the Swedish Association of Midwives and has five years’ experience in academic leadership as pro vice chancellor and acting vice chancellor for DU. Klingberg-Allvin has been invited as an expert to the international meetings on Strengthening Quality Midwifery Education organized by WHO and has been invited as keynote speaker at national and international conferences on global SRH. Current work focuseson working a with local researchers to begin building an agenda for midwifery research in the Somali region. Her ongoing program of research targets maternal morbidity and mortality in the Somali region using maternal near misses and audits in early and late pregnancy and design and testing of midwifery-led models of care to improve maternal and newborn health to reduce the burden of maternal and newborn mortality on individuals. On-going capacity development project (education and research in Midwifery) in Somalia, DRC and Bangladesh. 

Professional experience

Main supervisor of PhD
12 year(s) -

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
20 year(s) -
Collaboration with government agencies
20 year(s) -
Evaluations
20 year(s) -
Lecturing and workshops
20 year(s) -
Survey creation and analysis
20 year(s) -

Publications

One Foot Wet and One Foot Dry

Journal of Transcultural Nursing
The Panorama and Outcomes of Pregnancies Within a Well-Defined Population in Rural Vietnam 1999–2004

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Pregnancies and births among adolescents

Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
Maternal health care professionals’ perspectives on the provision and use of antenatal and delivery care: a qualitative descriptive study in rural Vietnam

BMC Public Health
Adverse perinatal and neonatal outcomes and their determinants in rural Vietnam 1999-2005

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Fear causes tears – Perineal injuries in home birth settings. A Swedish interview study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Married men’s first time experiences of early childbearing and their role in sexual and reproductive decision making: a qualitative study from rural Vietnam

Culture, Health & Sexuality
Somali women’s use of maternity health services and the outcome of their pregnancies: A descriptive study comparing Somali immigrants with native-born Swedish women

Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
Pregnant women’s perception on signs and symptoms during pregnancy and maternal health care in a rural low-resource setting

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Medical students’ knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards contraceptive use and counselling: a cross-sectional survey in Maharashtra, India

BMJ Open
Simplified follow-up after medical abortion using a low-sensitivity urinary pregnancy test and a pictorial instruction sheet in Rajasthan, India – study protocol and intervention adaptation of a randomised control trial

BMC Women's Health
Medical students’ attitudes and perceptions on abortion: a cross-sectional survey among medical interns in Maharastra, India

Contraception
Barriers and facilitators in the provision of post-abortion care at district level in central Uganda – a qualitative study focusing on task sharing between physicians and midwives

BMC Health Services Research
The discourses on induced abortion in Ugandan daily newspapers: a discourse analysis

Reproductive Health
Self-assessment of the outcome of early medical abortion versus clinic follow-up in India: a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

The Lancet Global Health
Health care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards induced abortions in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative data

BMC Public Health
Healing the health system after civil unrest

Global Health Action
Comparison of treatment of incomplete abortion with misoprostol by physicians and midwives at district level in Uganda: a randomised controlled equivalence trial

The Lancet
Acceptability of Home-Assessment Post Medical Abortion and Medical Abortion in a Low-Resource Setting in Rajasthan, India. Secondary Outcome Analysis of a Non-Inferiority Randomized Controlled Trial

PLOS ONE
‘They would never receive you without a husband’: Paradoxical barriers to antenatal care scale-up in Rwanda

Midwifery