MD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at the Institute of Clinical Medicine of the University of Oslo, Norway, and past-president of the Nordic Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health. Affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for 20 years, she is currently senior researcher at the Norwegian Research Centre for Women’s Health, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway. Her research activities primarily address reproductive epidemiology and psychometrics.