Trude works as a specialist midwife for professional development and clinical supervisor at Stavanger University Hospital. She holds a Master’s in International Health from the University of Bergen and a Diploma in Reproductive Health in Developing Countries from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

She has worked as a clinical midwife and in teaching for many years, and has also worked in Bangladesh, Palestine, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. She has served on the boards of both the Norwegian Association of Midwives and the International Confederation of Midwives.