Personal information
Ank de Jonge is a midwife and assistant professor at the Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG/ EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU university medical center, Amsterdam.
Research topics
Organisation of care (place of birth, risk selection, integration of care), quality of midwifery care (birthing positions).
Short biography
I qualified as a nurse in the Netherlands in 1989 and as a midwife in East Anglia, U.K. in 1994. From 1995 to 1998 I worked as a community midwife and midwife tutor in Nigeria. I did a Master in Public Health in Edinburgh from 1998-2000, while I worked as a midwife in Edinburgh and Livingstone. Since 2000, I have been working as a primary care midwife in the Netherlands. From 2003 to 2006 I worked at the Dutch Organisation of Midwives (KNOV) at the department of guideline development. In 2003 I also started a PhD programme at the section Women Studies Medicine, Department of General Practice in Nijmegen. From 2006 to 2009 I worked as a midwife researcher at TNO Institute for Applied Research in Leiden. Since 1 May 2009 I work at the Department of Midwifery Science.
PhD thesis
“Birthing positions revisited. Examining the evidence for a routine practice.” (2008) UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen.