Dr Ann-Maree Nobelius
Research Fellow
Telephone: +61 3 5128 1000
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Annmaree.Nobelius@monash.edu
Qualifications
- BSc (Bachelor of Sciences from Monash)
- DipRepSc (Diploma of Reproductive Sciences from Monash)
- MRepSc (Masters of Reproductive Sciences from Monash)
- PhD (Public Health, Monash)
Background
Ann-Maree was originally employed in November 2001 by Jo Wainer and the School of Rural Health to write several reports for the Commonwealth Government on the Gender Issues in Rural Practice Project. She became the Project Officer for the Gender Working Party in July of 2002.
In this role she was responsible for the integration (mainstreaming) of gender competence into the new 5 year medical curriculum at Monash. This involved advocating for the mainstreaming by developing relationships with key faculty and curriculum 'gatekeepers', outlining the rationale for mainstreaming and demonstrating its value through the development of gender-specific curriculum and assessment. The process involved new gender competent curriculum development in all year levels, academic and clinical tutor training, faculty training and assessment development.
The Monash medical curriculum was the first in the world to be fully mainstreamed for gender competence and is regarded as world’s best-practice by the World Health Organization (PDF file, 487kb).
She completed an undergraduate medical sciences degree with pharmacology and physiology majors, and biochemistry and microbiology minors at Monash University in 1988. She then completed a Masters in Reproductive Sciences at Monash in 1990 with a thesis in endocrine research. After a year of medical research she developed an interest in HIV prevention. After realising that HIV prevention rests largely on the modification of social behaviours and social structure she returned to university to study social sciences, particularly gender studies and qualitative research techniques and took up a scholarship to the Australian National University in 1997. She conducted a sexual health needs assessment of out-of-school adolescents in rural southwest Uganda in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (UK) Programme on AIDS in Uganda, living in a rural village fro 1998-1999. After a break, working on gender mainstreaming at Monash, she submitted her PhD by publication in Public Health in January 2010 and it was passed unchanged in April with four of the five papers published or in-press from this thesis thus far.
Research Interests
- Gender and cultural competence
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Health Promotion
- HIV Prevention
- Contextually Appropriate Health Service Delivery
- Adolescent Friendly Health Services
Recent Publications
Nobelius, A. M., Kalina, B., Pool, R., Whitworth, J., Chesters, J., Power, R., et al. (2012). "The Young Ones are the Condom Generation": Condom Use against Out-of-School Adolescents in Rural Southwest Uganda." Journal of Sex Research 49(1): 88-102.
Nobelius, A. M., Kalina, B., Pool, R., Whitworth, J., Chesters, J., Power, R., (2011). "Sexual partner types and related sexual health risk among out-of-school adolescents in rural south-west Uganda." AIDS Care 23(2): 252-259.
Nobelius, A. M., Kalina, B., Pool, R., Whitworth, J., Chesters, J., Power, R., (2010). "You still need to give her a token of appreciation": The meaning of the exchange of money in the Sexual relationships of Out-of-School adolescents in Rural Southwest Uganda." The Journal of Sex Research 47(5): 490-503.
Nobelius, A., B. Kalina, R. Pool, J. Whitworth, J. Chesters and R. Power. 2010. Sexual and reproductive health information sources preferred by out-of-school adolescents in rural southwest Uganda. Sex Education 10:1 p91-107.
Nobelius, A., B. Kalina, R. Pool, J. Whitworth, J. Chesters and R. Power. 2010. Delaying sexual debut amongst out-of-school youth in rural southwest Uganda. Culture, Health & Sexuality 12:6 p663-676.
Nobelius, A., B. Kalina, R. Pool, J. Whitworth, J. Chesters and R. Power. 2010. "You still need to give her a token of appreciation": The meaning of the exchange of money in the sexual relationships of out-of-school adolescents in rural southwest Uganda. Journal of Sex Research. 47:1-14.(Journal of Sex Research used this article as a Target Article and invited Peer Commentary on it from international sex research expert, Professor Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale because of its controversial findings)
Nobelius, AM & Wainer, J, (2004) Gender and Medicine: a conceptual guide for medical educators, (PDF file, 127kb). Monash University School of Rural Health, Traralgon, Vic. (Most recently, a tutors’ manual which the Nominee wrote to support clinical tutors in teaching the new curriculum at Monash was identified as “an exceptional example of existing sex and gender based teaching material and resources” by the American College of Women's Health Physicians; this manual was subsequently added to their website.)
