Biography:

Marie Klingberg-Allvin, is a RN and RM, and professor in reproductive health at Karolinska Institutet. She has a PhD in international health from Karolinska Institutet and 24 years’ experience of working within global Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and in midwifery in low resource settings. More specifically, her research area focuses on safe abortion, post abortion care, contraception, and immigrants’ SRH in Sweden. Majority of her research relates to comprehensive abortion care (medical abortion and post abortion care) and contraceptives and has been published in high impact journals (Lancet and Lancet global Health) and used in the WHO guidelines. She has experience building strategic partnerships with academia, health care system organizations, nongovernmental organizations in Sweden and low-resource settings. 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 and its profession organized by WHO and has been invited as keynote speaker at national and international conferences on global SRH. Her ongoing program of research targets the midwives role in comprehensive abortion care in Sweden, Somalia, Ethiopia, DRC and Rwanda. A collaboration with Swedish Public health Authority is on-going and focuses menopause and Youth SRH (menstrual health). Research group Klingberg-Allvin at Karolinska Institutet is interdisciplinary with research competencies within midwifery, health system, health policy, health economy, health care quality and clinical studies. She has + 80 scientific publications in the field of Sexual, reproductive health and midwifery and has supervised 12 PhD students.