Articles published in peer-reviewed journals

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S.Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T.M. (2024). Barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant and refugee youth: An exploratory socioecological qualitative analysis. Youth 4(4), 1538–1566. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4040099

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S.Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T. (2024). Socioecologies in shaping migrants and refugee youths’ sexual and reproductive health and rights: A participatory action research study. Reproductive Health 21, 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-024-01879-x

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Mapedzahama, V., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S. Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T. (2023). Emerging evidence on programs and policies for migrant and refugee youth's sexual and reproductive health and rights: A scoping review. International Journal of Public Health 68, 1605801. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2023.1605801

Heller, L.*, Pithavadian., R.*, Micheal, S., Chandio, N., Sanagavarapu, P., Parmar, J., Cartwright, S., Slack-Smith, L., & Arora, A. (2024). Parental perceptions of an oral health promotion program in early childhood education and care settings: A qualitative study. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12641 *both authors contributed equally as first-author.

Moore, A., and Pithavadian, R. (2020). Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought. Journal of Global History, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000108

Moore, A., Towghi, F., Ashford, H., Dune, T., and Pithavadian, R. (2022). The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present. History and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232

Mpofu, E., Hossain, S. Z., Dune, T., Baghbanian, A., Aibangbee, A., Pithavadian, R., Mapedzahama, V., and Liamputtong, P. (2021). Contraception decision making by Australian Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Australian Youth: An exploratory study. Australian Psychologist, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00050067.2021.1978814

Pithavadian, R., Chalmers, J., & Dune, T. (2023). The experiences of women seeking help for vaginismus and its impact on their sense of self: An integrative review. Women’s Health, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/17455057231199383

Pithavadian R., Chalmers J., Ramanathan V. & Dune T., (2024). People discuss the men who can’t get it up, but what about the women who can’t get it in? Women’s help-seeking experiences for sexual pain-penetration disorder, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100480 

Pithavadian, R., Dune, T., Chalmers, J., & Ramanathan, V. (2024). The interrelationship between women’s help-seeking experiences for vaginismus and their sense of self: A qualitative study and abductive analysis. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2024.2396134

Pithavadian, R., Dune, T. & Chalmers, J. (2024). Patients’ recommendations to improve help-seeking for vaginismus: a qualitative study. BMC Women's Health, 24(203).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03026-x

Rutherford, H., Dale, M., Wootton, S., Pithavadian, R., Dennis, S., Brown, S., Alison, J.A., Chan, A.S.L., Yang, I.A. and McKeough, Z. (2025). Experiences of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation with mHealth and centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study. Health Expectations, 28: e70181. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70181