I'm rather new at the list and have still not made an introduction of myself. So here it comes.
Swedish midwife graduated in 1981, working in small birth departments and at maternity-care  in a multicultural area/district in a small university town(with antenatal/postnatal checkups, cx screening (paps smear) with advising question/problems during climacteric period, anticonception for all ages and cooperation with schools having groups of adolescents talking about sex, attitudes anticonception, gender roles...)
During the twelve years at maternity care I met women from more than a hundred nationalities. As I have been travelling a lot speking variuos languages and living in Venezuela (working ther also) have got a lot of experience of meeting people, listening to their story, customs, believes, worries and wishes, supporting them during pregnancy, birth and postnatal, brestfeeding period. 
During several years 83-93 I have been working actively with breastfeeding matters, in the Swedish "Amningshjälpen", their international group-made a report 1988 about how breastfeeding is treated in medical/nurse/midwifery education and in the used litterature.
I have also been working with women/girls abusing drugs at a institution and a needle-change project, where we developed and extended the field of working as we gained knowledge.A report is written and published however still just in Swedish (but I will try to write an article in english out a of it).
I entered the research area 2001 and presented my dissertation in november 2003 in Public Health- migration medicine, at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Aspects of foreign-born womens health and childbirth-related outcomes. An epidemiological study of women in childbearing ages in Sweden"
Partly it can be downloaded through the library/dissertations; www.kib.ki.se)

After my dissertation I have been working as a senior lecturer in midwifery and nurse education.
However from this autumn I have succeded in having financed further research, I will do more epidemiological studies at the National Board of Health in Sweden and then out of these results, preform interviews-focus groups and in-depth (with women from different country/regions of birth) to gain a deeper and more multidimensional knowledge (out of a critical reflexive and intersectorial perspective-where gender, ethnicity, class are integrated)
I look forward to have contacts with other researchers interested in my experiences, working and research areas

With Best Regards
Eva Robertson
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