Kathrin Stoll


Evaluation Coordinator

Center for Rural Health

Dr. Kathrin Stoll (she, her) is a social scientist with degrees in psychology, family studies and interdisciplinary studies related to public health, nursing and midwifery.  Following a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in Population and Public Health at UBC and a CIHR fellowship in primary health care research, she joined the Birth Place Lab as Senior Research Associate. She has worked with transdisciplinary teams to develop several innovative, patient-centred instruments. She led the psychometric testing of a scale that assesses stress associated with remittances obligations of Sudanese refugees; a measure of childbirth fear that has been used in 10+ countries; and 3 scales to measure autonomy, respect, and mistreatment in perinatal care. These patient-oriented instruments measure quality of pregnancy and birth care are being implemented in research and quality improvement programs in over 18 countries. Dr. Stoll is co-Investigator on several community participatory action research studies  including Changing Childbirth in BC, Birth Includes Us, and the current national CIHR funded RESPCCT study. Dr Stoll was lead evaluator for the College of Midwives of three collaborative maternity care programs that serve priority populations, and she led the Sustainable Midwifery Practice Taskforce (SMPT) to identify solutions to occupational stress and burnout among BC Midwives.Dr. Stoll has served as co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice, lecturer at Hannover Medical School in Germany, and is a Fellow at the Centre for Rural Health Research.


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