Jude Kornelsen

Dr. Jude Kornelsen is a health services researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. As co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research, her primary research focus is on rural health issues, particularly the investigation of appropriate levels of services for rural maternity care and the role of midwifery in contributing to such care. Since 2005, Dr. Kornelsen has led multiple mixed-method investigations in rural B.C. exploring women’s experiences traveling to give birth. Some of such investigations have helped provide better understanding in the maternity care needs of women and Indigenous groups in B.C. Dr. Kornelsen also has a more general interest in modalities of birth, specifically women's choices that are outside the norm of experience. To this end she has conducted studies on patient-initiated elective cesarean section and unassisted home birth. Dr. Kornelsen is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar.