Marie Klingberg Allvin

I defended my thesis with focus on pregnancy outcome and care need among adolescence in the Vietnam, in 2007 at the Department of Public Health Science, KI. My research since the defense has focused on women’s right to safe abortion and contraceptives in low-income countries were maternal mortality is high. Results based on intervention studies in Uganda and Kenya have shown that midwives can take on a greater responsibility for abortion and contraceptive counseling and that simplified medical abortion in rural India is effective and safe. Compared to the doctors, midwives are far numerous and more accessible for women in, for example, Uganda, especially in the rural areas. Research show that if investing in educating and involving midwives in post-abortion care, accessibility to safe treatment increases and with that, the risk of maternity mortality can decrease. The research group have on going research is in Somalia, Demographic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sweden and Canada. Collaborators are researcher from the local universities and McMaster University, Canada, University of Michigan, USA . The team is interdisciplinary with competence in midwifery and within the health system, health economy, health care, health care quality and clinical studies.