Midwife and PHD Researcher at UiT- The Arctic University of Tromsø. Doing my research on iodine status among women in childbearing age in the northern parts of Norway as a part of the MISA2 project. Field of interest: women's and infants health, nutrition, breastfeeding and postnatal period. Previously done research on ABE(antenatal breastmilk expression)

I am involved in several projects related to mother-child health, mainly:

- teenage pregnancies and perinatal mortality and morbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia, using the Georgian National Birth Registry (GBR)

- women's assessments of the quality of Norwegian and European birth and maternity care, using questionnaires from the IMAGINE study

I am the lead supervisor of 1 PhD-student and co-supervisor for 1 PhD student.