| Dr Karin Hammarberg |
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Honorary Fellow |
| Biography |
Karin Hammarberg was born in Sweden where she became a Registered Nurse in 1977 and was awarded a BSc in Midwifery in 1982. Between 1984 and 2000 Karin worked as clinical co-ordinator of IVF programs in Sweden and Australia. In 1999 she completed a Master of Women’s Health by research examining women's experience of IVF treatment. In 2006 she was awarded a PhD for her thesis which investigated the experience of childbirth and early mothering after assisted conception.
Karin works with A/Professor Jane Fisher on an ARC Linkage Grant funded study entitled “Parental Age and Transition to Parenthood Australia” (PATPA). She is also a member of a research team investigating the health and development of ART conceived adolescents.
Karin currently lives in the US and has been commissioned by Wiley Publishing Australia to write a book, ‘IVF & Beyond for Dummies’, due to be published in April 2010. In December 2009 she was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the Low Cost IVF Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland) and is working with the Foundation and WHO to improve access to reproductive health services, including affordable IVF, for women in resource constrained countries.
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