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Ruth Montgomery is the Project Director for “Inuulluataarneq” a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Community- Based Participatory Research project. She has 20 years’ of experience teaching medical, nursing and midwifery students at colleges in Denmark and Greenland and has worked extensively with students, teachers and professionals in Greenland, doing clinical supervision both in schools and universities settings in Greenland and Denmark. Montgomery has managed for a large range of research and health promotion projects, produced 3 films, and has done international consultancy in strategic development of projects concerning mother-child health at the International confederation of Midwives in the Haag, Holland. She is a PhD student at the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Education:
- Doctor of Public Health Scholar. Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg Sweden.
- 2005 - Masters of Public Health. The Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg Sweden.
- 1990 - Certified Licensed Midwife. The Royal Danish College of Midwifery, Aalborg Denmark.
- 1981 - Primary School Educator. Jutland’s School of Primary Education, Aarhus Denmark.
- 1977 - Associate Degree in Spanish. University of Texas, Austin Texas.
Publications:
- Montgomery-Andersen R, Willén H, Borup I. There was no other way things could have been-Greenlandic women’s experiences of referral and transfer during pregnancy. Journal of Anthropology and Medicine, 2010; 17 (3): 301-311.
- Gesink-Law, D., Rink, E., Montgomery-Andersen, R., Mulvad, G., Koch, A. (2010) Developing a Culturally Competent and Socially Relevant Sexual Health Survey with an Urban Arctic Community. Journal of Circumpolar Health. 69(1):25-37.
- Gesink Law DC, Rink E, Montgomery-Andersen R, Mulvad G, Koch A. Cognitive Interviewing to Exchange Sexual Health Knowledge: Developing a Sexual Health Survey with an Urban Arctic Community. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 2009; 68 (4): 405-413.
- Elizabeth Rink, Dionne Gesink Law, Ruth Montgomery-Andersen, Gert Mulvad, and Anders Koch. The Practical Application of Community Based Participatory Research in the North American Arctic: Initial Findings from the Greenland Sexual Health Study. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 2009; 68 (4): 405-413.
- Ruth Montgomery-Andersen. Referral In Pregnancy: A Challenge for Greenlandic Women. Masters Thesis. Göteborg, Sweden: Nordic School of Public Health. 2005.
- Ruth Montgomery-Andersen. Adolescent mothers: a challenge for First Nations. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 2004; 63 Suppl.2: 274-9.
email: rumo@uni.gl or juumooq@gmail.com
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