Mr Olivier Degomme
Director, Associate Professor

Olivier Degomme is Director of the International Centre for Reproductive Health and Associate Professor at Ghent University. He coordinates a team of 30 staff members in our research center. The research teams are studying sexually transmitted diseases; adolescent health, gender, sexual violence, maternal and child health; sexual and reproductive health in vulnerable populations,... The research projects include H2020 projects, several FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders) research projects, as well as consultancies for UN organizations and national governments. He is as well coordinator of the Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy and of the interuniversity Master in Global Health. Furthermore, he is providing day-to-day assistance and supervision to several PhD candidates from various countries including Belgium, Kenya and Mozambique.
Publications of Olivier
2022 Barriers and facilitators to cervical cancer screening among under-screened women in Cuenca, Ecuador : the perspectives of women and health professionalsOlivier Degomme, Kristien Michielsen, Heleen Vermandere
2022 Improving access to maternal health services among rural hard-to-reach fishing communities in Uganda, the role of community health workersOlivier Degomme
2021 The potential role of network-oriented interventions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among asylum seekers in BelgiumOlivier Degomme, Emilomo Ogbe
2021 Systematic review of the concept ‘male involvement in maternal health’ by natural language processing and descriptive analysisOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2021 Towards a global framework for assessing male involvement in maternal health : results of an international Delphi studyOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2021 ANSER : five years of global academic collaboration building evidence for sexual and reproductive health and rights policiesOlivier Degomme
2021 Mobility for maternal health among women in hard-to-reach fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda : a community-based cross-sectional surveyOlivier Degomme
2020 Universal cervical cancer control through a right to health lens : refocusing national policy and programmes on underserved womenOlivier Degomme, Ines Keygnaert, Katrina Perehudoff, Heleen Vermandere
2020 Antenatal care practices among hard-to-reach fishing communities on Lake Victoria : a community-based cross-sectional surveyOlivier Degomme, Kristien Michielsen, Katrina Perehudoff
2020 Components of antenatal care received by women in fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda : a cross sectional surveyOlivier Degomme, Kristien Michielsen, Katrina Perehudoff
2020 A systematic review of intimate partner violence interventions focused on improving social support and/ mental health outcomes of survivorsOlivier Degomme, Emilomo Ogbe
2020 A qualitative study on midwives' identity and perspectives on the occurrence of disrespect and abuse in Maputo cityOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2020 Pregnancy and childbirth in Mozambique : men as decision makers and women as caretakers?Olivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2020 Induced abortion : a cross-sectional study on knowledge of and attitudes toward the new abortion law in Maputo and Quelimane cities, MozambiqueOlivier Degomme, Kristien Michielsen
2020 Knowledge of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by pregnant women in Maputo City, MozambiqueOlivier Degomme
2019 Disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in southern Mozambique : a cross-sectional studyOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2019 Policymaker, health provider and community perspectives on male involvement during pregnancy in southern Mozambique : a qualitative studyOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle
2019 Assessing changes in costs of maternal postpartum services between 2013 and 2014 in Burkina FasoOlivier Degomme
2018 Opportunities for linking research to policy : lessons learned from implementation research in sexual and reproductive health within the ANSER networkOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle, Ines Keygnaert, Anne Nobels, Emilomo Ogbe
2018 Quality of care in family planning services in rural Mozambique with a focus on long acting reversible contraceptives : a cross-sectional surveyOlivier Degomme, Anna Galle, Heleen Vermandere