2025 publications

Davidson N, Hammarberg K, Fisher J. Barriers to and Enablers of Preventive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Among Women Seeking Asylum in Melbourne, Victoria: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2025 Dec 8;22(12):1836. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22121836.

Forbes F, Wu L, Shiferaw A, Stanzel K, Fisher J. Being born in Australia: Implications for the digital adaptation of an online psychoeducational programme for Ethiopian parents. Health Education Journal. 2025 Nov 30. doi: 10.1177/00178969251395571.

Davison N, Behl R, Baek Y, Tran T, Fisher J. Digital Health Interventions for Perinatal Depression in Diverse Cultural Contexts: a Systematic Review. Current Psychiatry Reports. 2025 Nov 28;28(1):2. doi: 10.1007/s11920-025-01649-x.

Rowe H, Fisher J, Meggetto E, Lees H, Makleff S. Working toward a stepped-care model of postnatal mental healthcare to improve access: the Theory of Change approach. BMC Health Services Research. 2025 Nov 27;25(1):1544. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13629-1.

Rees SJ, Fisher J, Whitten T, Suomi A, Green M, Hassoun F, Moussa B, Nadar N, Tay AK, McCormack C, Silove D. Trajectories of risk in early psychosocial development: Children of mothers exposed to intimate partner violence from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds in Australia. Child Abuse & Neglect. 2025 Nov;169(Pt 1):107622. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107622.

Fisher J, Lukas E, Mavisakalyan A, True J. Regulation of domestic violence: a global perspective. BMC Public Health. 2025 Oct 24;25(1):3598. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24489-z.

Hammarberg K, He P, Mantha S, Miller S, Penver M, Robers E, Yanto L, Beilby K. Information about elective egg freezing on instagram reels: a content review. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 2025 Oct 21. doi: 10.1007/s10815-025-03723-y.

Mazza D, Thapaliya K, Crawford SB, Hui A, Moradi M, Grzeskowiak LE. The clinical presentation, investigation, and management of women diagnosed with endometriosis in Australian general practices, 2011-2021: an open cohort study. The Medical Journal of Australia. 2025 Dec 8;223(11):586-592. doi: 10.5694/mja2.70062.

Weerasinghe M, Mudunna C, Makleff S, Sastry J, Rajapaksa Hewageegana N, Varshney K, Romero L, Fisher J. Sexual and reproductive health information and service needs and preferences of adolescents and young adults in Sri Lanka: a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2025 Oct 10;25(1):3461. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24324-5.

Saldanha S, Botfield JR, Moradi M, Wong J, Mazza D. Australian health and social service providers' perspectives on interpersonal and structural forms of reproductive coercion. Social Science & Medicine. 2025 Nov;385:118628. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118628.

Wiersma M, Kerridge I, Gallagher S, Hammarberg K, Norman RJ, Rombauts L, Savulescu J, Stewart C, Yazdani A, Lipworth W. Commercial Impacts on Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Scoping Review. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2025 Sep 11. doi: 10.1007/s11673-025-10456-1.

Mudunna C, Chandradasa M, Tran TD, Antoniades J, Sumanasiri S, Fisher J. Prevalence and determinants of mental health problems experienced by school-going adolescents in Sri Lanka. Global Mental Health (Camb). 2025 Sep 17;12:e104. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2025.10055.

Mabweazara GM, Hammarberg K, Mhazo P. When assisted reproductive technology (ART) opens the door for inclusivity in a highly charged cultural milieu: an exploration of news articles on the establishment of ART clinics in Zimbabwe. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2025 Aug;27(8):947-962. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2403104.

Popplestone S, Tran T, Crookes A, Buksh SM, Fisher J. Home caregiving, early learning and developmental outcomes among preschool-aged children in Fiji. Early Child Development and Care. 2025 Jul 11;195(9–10), 825–846. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2025.2530755.

Kalra H, Tran T, Nguyen H, Chandra P, Sharp H, Fisher J. Prevalence and correlates of physical violence perpetrated by an intimate partner against women who are pregnant in India. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Jul 10;25(1):743. doi: 10.1186/s12884-025-07840-5.

Nguyen HT, Nguyen AQ, Nguyen NT, La NL, Tran T, Wurfl A, Orr J, Nguyen H, Shochet I, Fisher J, Nguyen HT. Cost-Effectiveness of a Universal School-Based Mental Health Prevention Program: An Economic Modeling Study in a Limited Income Context. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2025 Nov;23(6):1085-1098. doi: 10.1007/s40258-025-00982-9.

Lewis S, Hammarberg K, Kennedy J, Biggs S, Amor DJ, Glynn A, Hickey M, McBain J, Halliday J. Comparing subjective indicators of health in adults aged 27-38 years conceived with and without assisted reproductive technology. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 2025 Jun;50(6):104777. doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.104777.

Davison N, Hammarberg K, Tran T, Collyer TA, Lowthian J, Kirkman M, Fisher J, Dwyer R, Layton N. Understanding the psychosocial well-being of people older than 65 years during emergency department admissions: A qualitative analysis of patients' accounts of their experiences. Australasian Journal on Ageing. 2025 Jun;44(2):e70033. doi: 10.1111/ajag.70033.

Varney JE, So D, Gibson PR, Rhys-Jones D, Lee YSJ, Fisher J, Moore JS, Ratner R, Morrison M, Burgell RE, Muir JG. Clinical Trial: Effect of a 28-Day Low FODMAP Diet on Gastrointestinal Symptoms Associated With Endometriosis (EndoFOD)-A Randomised, Controlled Crossover Feeding Study. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2025 Jun;61(12):1889-1903. doi: 10.1111/apt.70161.

Teoh KW, Baek Y, Ademi Z, Lee SWH. A cost-effectiveness analysis alongside trial of a digital health-supported and community pharmacy-based prediabetes management programme (PRIME Programme) in Malaysia. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. 2025 Jun;27(6):3324-3334. doi: 10.1111/dom.16350.

Fisher J. Sociocultural context and intersectionality are vital to women's reproductive mental health. World Psychiatry. 2025 Jun;24(2):218-219. doi: 10.1002/wps.21308.

Gaidhane A, Fisher J, Slemming W, Radner J, Khatib MN, Holding P, Quazi Syed Z. Editorial: Achieving impacts at scale in early childhood interventions: innovations in monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Frontiers in Public Health. 2025 May 9;13:1604737. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1604737.

Stanzel K, Pham M, Hammarberg K, Fisher J. 'Midlife care to migrant women: primary healthcare providers' beliefs about barriers and facilitators'. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 2025 May 8;26:e40. doi: 10.1017/S1463423625000349.

Hvala T, Hammarberg K. The impact of reproductive health needs on women's employment: a qualitative insight into managing endometriosis and work. BMC Women's Health. 2025 May 7;25(1):216. doi: 10.1186/s12905-025-03726-y.

Davidson N, Fisher J. "If I know about it of course I would give my son and daughter", barriers to and enablers of accessing human papillomavirus vaccination among women from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds resettling in Melbourne, Australia - A qualitative study. Vaccine. 2025 Apr 19;53:127064. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127064.

Volks C, Hammarberg K, Whittaker A. Consequences for Australian Recipients of Cross Border Oocyte Donation in South Africa: Double Embryo Transfer and Donor Anonymity. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2025 Mar 30. doi: 10.1111/ajo.70027.

Ekstrand Ragnar M, Hammarberg K, Carvalho A, Delbaere I, Fincham A, Harper J, Serdarogullari M, Simopoulou M, Antoniadou Stylianou C, Sylvest R, Grace B. Defending access to reproductive health information. Human Reproduction Open. 2025 Mar 25;2025(2):hoaf016. doi: 10.1093/hropen/hoaf016.

Dahal PK, Vandelanotte C, Rawal L, Mahumud RA, Paudel G, Lloyd M, Baek Y, Karmacharya B, Sugishita T, Ademi Z. Long-term cost-effectiveness of health behaviour intervention to manage type 2 diabetes in Nepal. BMC Medicine. 2025 Mar 11;23(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-03981-8.

Baek Y, Fisher J, Tran T, Owen A, Nguyen T, Luchters S, Hipgrave DB, Hanieh S, Tran T, Ha TT, Biggs BA, Ademi Z. Economic returns on investing in early childhood development in Vietnam: a cost-benefit analysis. BMC Health Services Research. 2025 Mar 15;25(1):384. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-12516-z.

Tran T, Joyce A, Nguyen H, Fisher J. Financial hardship and psychological distress during and after COVID-19 lockdowns in Victoria, Australia: a secondary data analysis of four repeated state-wide surveys. BMJ Open. 2025 Mar 21;15(3):e093336. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093336.

Mudunna C, Tran T, Antoniades J, Chandradasa M, Fisher J. Mental health of adolescents in countries of South-East Asia: A policy review. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2025 Mar;105:104386. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2025.104386.

Milgrom J, Garner B, Rodrigues A, Fisher J, Borninkhof J, Kavanagh D, Gemmill AW. National Implementation of Perinatal Mental Health Treatment-The MumSpace Digital Stepped-Care Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2025 Feb 28;22(3):361. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22030361.

Hore-Lacy F, Dimitriadis C, Hoy RF, Jimenez-Martin J, Sim MR, Fisher J, Glass DC, Walker-Bone K. Screening Workers for Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica: Development and Usability of an Electronic Data Capture Tool. JMIR Human Factors. 2025 Feb 24;12:e64111. doi: 10.2196/64111.

Nguyen QA, Tran T, Tran TA, Nguyen TV, Fisher J. Validation of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire – Adolescent short form (TEIQue-ASF) among adolescents in Vietnam. SSM - Mental Health. 2025 Feb 18;7:100413. doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100413.

Copus Campbell S, Cripps K, Davies SE, Fisher J, Flynn A, Mataia Milo SL, Singh N, True J. Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls. BMJ Global Health. 2025 Feb 12;10(2):e017046. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017046.

Kirkman M, Honda T, McDonald SJ, Green S, Walker-Bone K, Winship I, Fisher JRW. Consideration of sex and gender: an analysis of Australian clinical guidelines. The Medical Journal of Australia. 2025 Mar 3;222(4):205-209. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52602.

Starr M, Harding R, Ataíde R, Von Dinklage N, Sinharoy SS, Jayasinghe Y, Manda-Taylor L, Fisher J, Braat S, Pasricha SR. Epidemiology of menstrual-related absenteeism in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional analysis of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. The Lancet Global Health. 2025 Feb;13(2):e285-e297. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00468-6.

Mudunna C, Weerasinghe M, Tran T, Antoniades J, Romero L, Chandradasa M, Fisher J. Nature, prevalence and determinants of mental health problems experienced by adolescents in south Asia: a systematic review. The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia. 2025 Jan 21;33:100532. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100532.

Tran T, Nguyen H, Fisher J. Suicidal behaviours among 13- to 15-year-olds in four southeast Asian countries: Trends and contributing factors. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health. 2025 Jun 24;12:e70. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2025.10030.

Davidson N, Hammarberg K, Fisher J. 'But Because I Don't Know About It, That's Why I Haven't Done It': Experiences of Access to Preventive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Refugee Women from Iraq and Syria Living in Melbourne, Australia-A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). 2025 Jan 23;22(2):149. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22020149.

Dorney E, Cheney K, Musgrave L, Hammarberg K, Rodgers R, Black KI. Understanding preconception health in Australia through the lens of people of reproductive age: Implications for care providers. Women and Birth. 2025 Jan;38(1):101857. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2024.101857.

Hammarberg K, Mills C. Time to end self-regulation of the Australian fertility industry. BioNews. 2025 Oct 13.

Hammarberg K, Polyakov A, Mills C, Ludlow K. Here’s what the review of the IVF industry said should change – and what it missed. The Conversation. 2025 Oct 3.

Hammarberg K. Here’s what we know – and don’t know – about using IVF sperm donors from overseas. The Conversation. 2025 Sep 3.

Karin Hammarberg. How common are errors in IVF labs? Can they be prevented? The Conversation. 2025 Apr 14.

Hammarberg K, Copp T. Buyer beware: The AMH test is not a fertility fortune teller. BioNews. 2025 Feb 17.

Kirkman M, Fisher J. Australia’s clinical guidelines shape our health care. Why do so many still ignore sex and gender? The Conversation. 2025 Feb 11.

Hammarberg K. Looking for a sperm donor online? 4 things to think about first. The Conversation. 2025 Feb 10.

Hammarberg K. Women don’t have a ‘surge’ in fertility before menopause – but surprise pregnancies can happen, even after 45. The Conversation. 2025 Jan 30.

Kirkman M, Honda T, McDonald S, Romero L, Green S, Walker-Bone K, Winship I, and Fisher J. Literature review to inform strategies to address sex and gender bias in the Health system. Department of Health and Aged Care. Australian Government. 2025 Feb 6.

Hammarberg K. Interviewed for ABC 7.30 Report on the state of the fertility industry. 2025 Sep 1. IVF clinic Queensland Fertility Group silenced white couple who gave birth to biracial baby in sperm mix-up and 99pc of donor sperm rated 'high risk' of potential mix-ups at Queensland fertility giant

Dr Karin Hammarberg. Fertility awareness for achieving reproductive goals. All Together #75. LMSL podcast. 2025 Mar 28.

Hammarberg K. Interviewed for Shifra’s frozen eggs will reach a legal expiry date. What happens to them when time runs out? The Age, 2025 Mar 15.

Hammarberg K, IVF alternatives, how much they cost, and if they're right for you. ABC News. 2025 Mar 17.