Shields, Kristine: - Kristine Shields MSN, DrPH is a doctor of public health, a women's health nurse practitioner, and a researcher on medication safety in pregnancy for the pharmaceutical industry. Women's health and empowerment issues motivated her career as a clinician, a public health professional. and a writer. She is the author of The Vulva Owner's Manuals, a series of concise books on reproductive health issues. She writes from Bucks County, PA and Charleston, SC. Meet her at KristineShieldsAuthor.com.