Crossing Borders

“this book may be the beginning of a new journey of self-exploration and appreciation of human multiplicity.  i warmly recommend it. “

Jonas Stier, Professor of Intercultural Studies, 

Dalarna University, Sweden

Jenny Wickford is a Swedish physiotherapist, educator and health enthusiast with an international heart, and a love of the outdoors, rock climbing, yoga, cycling and hiking. Her particular interest professionally is pelvic pain and dysfunction. She has a broad range of experience, having worked in Sweden, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates, in public and private contexts, with humanitarian development work and in universities.
Jenny is also very interested in intercultural collaboration and global health. Her doctoral research was on intercultural learning and professional development, based on research done in Afghanistan. She has a keen interest in providing, developing and promoting health services for people who do not have access to the help they need. In particular, this pertains to women's health, and the education and support of those suffering from pelvic pain and dysfunction. Together with friends with similar interests, she has started the interest group Noora Wellbeing, which aims to support women's wellbeing globally. Fatumo is a nurse, lecturer and PhD candidate from Sweden. Her area of interest is sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and children's health and wellbeing and parental support. For the past seven years, Fatumo has worked in the area of education on sexual and reproductive health and rights in low-resource settings. She is involved with education at Masters level both in Somalia and in Bangladesh. There, she assists midwives in the Midwifery Faculties with capacity-building and to improve the quality of midwifery education with the long term goal of decreasing maternal and child mortality. Fatumo's area of research focuses on the evaluation of an implemented, culturally sensitive parenting support program for Somali-born parents living in Sweden. The project aims to support parent-child relationships and to improve parents' and children's health and wellbeing. Her dream is to continue working on women's access to health services and health education in low-resource settings, with like-minded people.