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Marie Berg

Professor Emeritus

Reproductive and perinatal health
Mail
marie.berg@fhs.gu.se
Visiting address
Arvid Wallgrens backe hus 1 och 2
41346 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 457
40530 Göteborg

About Marie Berg

Professor Emeritus in Health Care Sciences specialising Reproductive and Perinatal health at University of Gothenburg and Ordinary Professor at Evangelical University in Africa. PhD, MPH, MNursSci, RN, RM

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HWc9UGcAAAAJ&hl=sv

Ongoing missions

  • Quality improvement of perinatal care in DR Congo in collaboration with the CEPAC church health care department
  • Program director for Midwife Education Program at Evangelical University of Africa, i Bukavu DR Kongo.

Recearch

My research aims at supporting a healthy pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood in normal as well as complicated conditions, focusing a normal, physiological birth with a person-centred holistic approach, minimal use of medical interventions and midwives fulfilling international professional norms.

Ongoing research (main)

  • Room4Birth: the health care environment with focus on the birthing room and its influence on the birth process, and birth outcomes including experience in Sweden and the DR Congo
  • Oxytocin and its use during labour and third stage
  • Midwife education Program in the DR Congo, implementation with focus Person-Centered Care and Simulation-based learning.
  • Implementation of quailty care of mother and newborn in the DR Congo, focusing the Panzi hospital and the Ibanda health zone in the DR Congo (different aspects such as use of MiMo, a Midwifery Model of woman-centred childbirth care, the health care environment and logistics, management of Retentio Placentae)

Finished research project (not all)

  • Obesity in pregnancy, healthy lifestyleintervention.
  • Diabetes, pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, focusing Diabetes type 1
  • Sexuality, childbirth and HIV

Research group: Sexuell, reproduktiv och perinatal hälsa. https://www.gu.se/forskning/sexuell-reproduktiv-och-perinatal-halsa

Education

The disciplin of Reproductive and Perinatal health, The midwife philosophy, theoretical model of midwifery care, qualitative methods, Systematic literature reviews, Diabetes and chidbirth, maternal health and care in low. oncome setting.

Earlier missions

  • Assessment committe for Associate Professorship, at Sahlgrenska Academy (SA), University of Gothenburg (2003-2022).
  • Board member scientific board for Swedish Midwifery Association (2003-2022).
  • University hospital consultant midwife at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Responsible Discipline Reproductive and Perinatal Health (2012-2020) at UGOT.
  • Program Director for the Midwifery education program (2002-2012) at UGOT.
  • Development and establishing of bachelor, master one year (2003), and master (2009) for midwives in the discipline Reproductive and Perinatal Health/Midwifery science at UGOT, and a full master program (2015).
  • Board member in the Sahlgrenska Akademy (SA) board (medical faculty board) a UGOT (2015-2018).
  • Director for the PhD programe at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences at UGOT (2012-2015).
  • Member in the PhD examination board at SA, UGOT (2010-2018)
  • Work 44 years as a midwife
  • Work in Dem. Rep. Congo since 1981 as head of maternity care, head of a woman lifeskills school and etctera, since 2015 focusing the Panzi hosital and te collaboration with Dr Prof Denis Mukwege (Nobe, Peace Price winner 2018) .