Ms Ann-Maree Nobelius - Doctoral Student

Ann-Maree Nobelius commenced work on this PhD in 1997 when took up a scholarship at the Australian National University for a PhD in Public Health. She conducted a sexual health needs assessment in out-of-school adolescents in rural south-west Uganda with the Medical Research Council Programme (UK) on AIDS in Uganda. The thesis describes the contextually appropriate health service and educational needs of the most HIV affected age group in the community who also have the least social and political power. She lived in a rural village in southwest Uganda for a year to collect the data for this project. She withdrew from ANU soon after returning from the field and took a job with Monash.

Originally employed in the School of Rural Health in November 2001 by 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 demonstrating the need for gender mainstreaming in the new 5 year medical curriculum at Monash. She is now employed by the Centre for Medicine and Health Sciences Education (CMHSE), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to mainstream a gender perspective throughout the new 5 Year medical curriculum.

Ann-Maree recommenced work on her PhD supported by an APA scholarship, in March 2005. Her PhD is jointly supervised by Dr Janice Chesters from the School of Rural Health and the Professor Robert Power from the Burnet Institute.

Ann-Maree is employed one day a week through CMHSE in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to continue her gender mainstreaming work. She is a member of the Year 4, Year 5 and Assessment Committees.

Academic Qualifications

Teaching Commitments

Ann-Maree maintains a teaching role at undergraduate, postgraduate and Faculty levels. She lectures a 3 hour seminar on ‘Sex, Gender and Medicine’ each semester to 2nd year medical students. At post-graduate level she lectures on ‘Gender and Medical Policy’ in the Education Program in Reproductive Biology and gives a half-day seminar on ‘Gender and Medicine’ to the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education each year.

Ann-Maree provides Gender Competence Training to Anatomy Demonstrators and PCL tutors within the tutors for the Faculty every year and provides the same training for individual clinical units and external bodies on request.

Selected Publications

Ann-Maree completed the upgraded content for the ‘Gendermed Website’ in July 2004 where copies of the following publications can be found:

Nobelius, AM & Wainer, J, (2004) Gender and Medicine: a conceptual guide for medical educators. Monash University School of Rural Health, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia.
Wainer J, Bryant L, Nobelius (2002) Introducing Gender Perspectives into Medical Curricula. Monash University School of Rural Health, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia.
Wainer J, Nobelius AM, Colville D (2002) The Experience of an International Program in a Gender Perspective in Medicine. Monash University School of Rural Health, Traralgon.
Wainer J & Nobelius AM (2002) Increasing Rigour in Medical Education: An International Symposium on Teaching About Gender in Medicine. Monash University School of Rural Health, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia.