Dr Karin Hammarberg

Karin Hammarberg RN BSc PhD is a member of the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) Communications Community of Practice, representing The Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-Communicable Diseases (CRE WaND). She is a senior research fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and a senior research officer, Victorian Assisted reproductive Treatment Authority.

She is a Registered Nurse with 20 years’ experience as clinical co-ordinator of IVF programs. Her PhD research examined the experience of birth and mothering after assisted conception. Karin’s main research interests are fertility and preconception health promotion; the psychosocial aspects of infertility and infertility treatment; health and development of children born as a result of assisted conception; infertility care in resource-constrained settings, and women’s health in midlife.