Reproductive Health and Health Promotion Work in a Life Course Perspective
We investigate various aspects of reproductive health from a life course perspective; in women, men, children, adolescents, and families.
In addition to research on pregnancy, labour and birth, and the postpartum period, we also focus on the health of children, adolescents, and young adults.
Our work explores health outcomes, health behaviours, mental health, and sexual health to better understand and address risks, protective factors, and social inequalities.
Through this research, we generate new knowledge aimed at enhancing the quality of midwifery care and strengthening health promotion for children and youth in a changing population.
Research areas
- Midwifery care through pregnancy, labour and birth as well as the postpartum period.
- Midwifery education, including simulation practice, other pedagogical tools, students’ experiences and clinical competencies, as well as newly graduates’ well-being
- Midwives’ work environment, sick leave and reasons for turnover
- Family-planning and prenatal health
- Obesity and weight development in pregnant women, children, adolescents and young adults
- Sexual and reproductive health literacy in adolescents and young adults
- Mental health in children and adolescents
- Global reproductive health
- Antenatal, labour, and postpartum care from a migration perspective
- Patient/user safety and quality development in clinical practice
- Reproductive phenotypes and menopausal lung health
- Patient/user safety and quality development in clinical practice
- Reproductive phenotypes and menopausal lung health
Ongoing research projects
- Ensuring a competent and sustainable workforce of midwives in Norway (CompMid)
- Enhanced Maternity care for Migrant women in Norway (Emma-Nor)
- Designing, developing and testing a risk assessment tool for clinicians caring for pregnant immigrant women in antenatal care (PreGO)
- The Babies Born Better Survey - women’s and co-parents’ experiences and perspectives on maternity care
- Postpartum care in transition
- Maternal weight and weight-change during reproduction
- Aberrant BMI-trajectories among children and adolescents
- Health Outcomes and Sociodemographic Determinants of Unplanned vs. Planned Pregnancies in Norway
- Reproductive lifespan phenotypes and lung health across the menopausal transition: A population-based study (ECRHS/RHINE cohorts)
- Psychometric Properties for the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in Child and Youth Health Clinics and School Health Services: A Validation Study
- Young women's sexual and reproductive health literacy
- Personalized contraceptive counseling, prescribing and administration practices of hormonal contraception for young women
- Municipal Health Services for Women with Endometriosis (GUIDE-HER)
- Den norske populasjonsbaserte studien om preterm fødsel
- Women's reproduction and long-term implications for chronic disease and death
- Social Prescription to Reduce Loneliness
- How Are Sexual Initiation and Sexual Rejection Understood in Long-Term Relationships?
Head of research group
Deputy leader
Members
Members
- Agnes Cecilie Wilhelmsen Giertsen
- Anne Britt Vika Nilsen
- Anne-Siri Fismen
- Dagny-Elise Ulvøy
- Elin Salemonsen
- Eline Skirnisdottir Vik
- Erica Schytt
- Eva Langeland
- Grethe Karlsen Aarreberg
- Hassan Alipanahzadeh
- Helene Trengereid Tempero
- Ingeborg Islaug Hatlevik Ørjasæter
- Ingrid Oma Langeland
- Ingvild Særvold Bruserud
- Elisabeth Hemnes Aanensen
- Janne Lillelid Gjerde
- Linn Marie Sørbye
- Katrine Aasekjær
- Marianne Lønnebotn
- Monica Nilsen Mørch
- Marte Bodil Rød
- Ragnhild Sollesnes
- Sara-Rebekka Færø Linde
- Maria Bakke Ulvesæter
- Mariann Enoksen
- Roger Ekeberg Henriksen
- Roy Miodini Nilsen
- Tone Engen
- Yaliso Yaya Balla
National partners
International partners
- Professor Soo Downe, UCLan
- Marie-Clare Balaam, UCLan
- Klas Kalgren, Karolinska Institutet
- Susanne Hesselman, Uppsala University
- Della Forster, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Touran Shefiei, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Helen McLachlan, La Trobe University Melbourne
- Ellen Aagaard Nøhr, Syddansk Universitet
- Janet Catov, Pittsburgh University
PhD Candidates
Associated members