Heidi Stöckl

Biographic Data

ID247429
NAMEHeidi Stöckl
GIVEN NAMESHeidi
FAMILY NAMEStöckl
SIGNATURESTÖCKL H
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0002-0907-8483
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Unbundling social protection

    Open AccessNontokozo Langwenya, Lucie Cluver et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • A measurement tool to capture sexual harassment among women in Tanzania

    Open AccessJoyce Wamoyi, Meghna Ranganathan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Sexual harassment is a serious public health problem, yet there is a lack of clarity on its measurement. OBJECTIVE: We set out to develop a measurement tool to capture sexual harassment in the different spheres of women's everyday lives. METHODS: We conducted 60 cognitive interviews with women in two iterations. In each iteration, we interviewed 10 young women aged 15-24 years, sampled from two public secondary schools; 20 women aged …

  • Coping responses to intimate partner violence

    Open AccessAnnapoorna Dwarumpudi, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026References: 32

    This study sought to explore the variety of coping strategies that women employ in response to intimate partner violence. Coping strategies can help women tolerate, minimise and deal with difficult challenges or conflicts in their relationships, such as learning to be independent from their husbands and surviving trauma. Drawing on 18 in-depth interviews conducted in Mwanza, Tanzania, we examined two different coping strategies - engagement and d…

  • Beyond ‘Go and bring your husband’

    Open AccessLily Haritu Foglabenchi, Tanya Marchant et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Maternal and infant mortality remains a major public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa. While male involvement in pregnancy and child birth has proven to be an effective intervention that can significantly reduce these deaths, low-income settings like Cameroon continue to encounter obstacles in engaging men in maternal and child health services. This study seeks to examine and contextualize barriers to male partner involvement in antenatal car…

  • Pathways between intimate partner violence and HIV care and treatment during pregnancy and postpartum

    Open AccessLeah Schrubbe, Catherine Makokha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with suboptimal HIV treatment behaviors and health outcomes among perinatal women. Less is known about the postpartum phase or how distinct types of perinatal IPV exposure may inhibit HIV-related care. We conducted a qualitative study nested within an ongoing trial among perinatal women in rural Kenya to explore the influence of IPV on adherence to HIV treatment during pregnancy and postpartum. In 202…

  • A Systematic Review of Theories of Stress as a Predictor of Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessSarah R Meyer, Selina Hardt et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2025

    Literature on stress and intimate partner violence (IPV) has primarily focused on stress as an outcome of women’s experience of IPV. However, stress may also be a predictor of male-perpetrated IPV. To improve our understanding of how theoretical approaches to stress have been applied to IPV research, we conducted a sub-analysis of a broader systematic review to identify published literature that examines theoretical approaches to stress as a pred…

  • Understanding non-partner sexual violence perpetration in young Tanzanian men

    Open AccessRebecca Brambilla, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The widespread nature of sexual harassment and rape perpetration among young men in our study and the associated risk factors, which are all tied to notions of masculinity encouraging domination, promiscuity, and risky health behaviours, call for harmful gender norms to be addressed to reduce the incidence of NPSV

  • The role of jealousy and infidelity in intimate partner violence against women

    Open AccessMichel Pichon, Marjorie Pichon et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    To be effective, IPV prevention programmes must support the dismantling of patriarchal hierarchies while simultaneously addressing backlash to shifts in traditional gender norms. Interventions should also target jealousy and suspicions of infidelity to foster safer and more equitable relationships. Addressing these community, relational and individual dimensions is essential for mitigating the complex dynamics of jealousy, infidelity and IPV

  • I Just Need Someone to Tell Me What to Do Because This is New Territory’

    Open AccessSusanna Rinne-Wolf, Tita Kern et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2025

    The suicide or homicide of a close person leaves children dependent on their carer for positive trauma processing. As these situations exist outside everyday parenting skills, this study aimed to better understand carers' experiences and needs. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with carers of children bereaved by suicide or homicide and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four themes concerning the carers' wishes and support n…

  • Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents

    Open AccessLorraine Sherr, Lucie D Cluver et al.ARTICLEContemporary Social Science2025References: 6

    By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region’s adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of ‘development accelerators’: interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 …

  • The Impact of Women's Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Gender Equity on Intimate Partner Violence Experience

    Open AccessJoanna Krajewska, Sarah R Meyer et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2025

    Inequitable gender norms can manifest in attitudes about gender and intimate partner violence (IPV) acceptability and be risk factors for women's experience of male-perpetrated IPV. This longitudinal study explored the effect of Tanzanian women's attitudes toward gender equity and toward IPV on physical and/or sexual IPV experience with mixed-effects and cross-lagged regressions. Unadjusted mixed-effects regression shows that an increase in gende…

  • Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect

    Open AccessLuísa Sorio Flor, Claudia Stein et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Cited by: 1References: 187

    The health toll of child maltreatment or violence against children (VAC) has not yet been comprehensively evaluated. Here, in our systematic review and meta-analyses, we focused on the health impacts of physical violence, psychological violence and neglect during childhood. Utilizing the Burden of Proof methodology, which generates conservative measures of association while accounting for heterogeneity between input studies, we evaluated 35 assoc…

  • The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women

    Open AccessClaudia Stein, Luísa Sorio Flor et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 79

    The health impacts of exposure to physical, sexual or psychological gender-based violence (GBV) against men and women are substantial yet not well delineated. We systematically reviewed and meta-analysed 40 studies to evaluate the associations between GBV (including but not limited to intimate partner violence) and eight health outcomes: sexually transmitted infections excluding HIV, maternal abortion and miscarriage, HIV/AIDS, major depressive d…

  • Male social embeddedness and intimate partner violence perpetration in Tanzania

    Open AccessRebecca Brambilla, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 57

  • Women's informal group participation and intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Open AccessShukla, Shruti Shukla et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 56

  • Pathways of romantic jealousy to intimate partner violence in Mwanza, northern Tanzania

    Open AccessDiana Aloyce, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2024

  • Prevalence and severity of physical intimate partner violence during pregnancy among adolescents in eight sub-Saharan Africa countries

    Open AccessCaroline Adjimi Nyemgah, Meghna Ranganathan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Globally, intimate partner violence (IPV) is highly prevalent, with adolescents being particularly vulnerable, especially during pregnancy. This study examines the prevalence and severity of physical IPV among pregnant adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We analyzed data from Demographic Health Surveys collected between 2017–2021 from eight SSA countries, involving 2,289 ever-pregnant adolescents aged 15–19. Physical IPV during pregnancy was…

  • Healthy lifestyle factors and male perpetration of intimate partner violence

    Open AccessAnna E Jacob, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Background In Tanzania, nearly half of ever-married women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet little knowledge of IPV from the male perspective exists.Objective To explore the role of essential healthy lifestyle factors, diet, sleep, and exercise, and their potential role in IPV perpetration.Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 1,002 young men (ages 18–24), 754 of which were in an intimate relationshi…

  • Sociological Theories to Explain Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessSarah R Meyer, Selina Hardt et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a highly prevalent public health challenge and human rights violation. Sociological theories address social structures to understand prevalence and dynamics of IPV against women. This systematic review aims (1) to identify, describe, categorize, and synthesize sociological theories that account for predictors of IPV against women, and (2) to compare and contrast sociological theories of predictors of IPV against…

  • The Association Between Depression, Suicidal Thoughts and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Young Men in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Open AccessDiana Aloyce, Heidi Stöckl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2024References: 3

    Purpose Depression and suicidal thoughts are associated with intimate partner violence, a major public health problem. Yet little is known about this association among young men in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to investigate the relationship between depression, suicidal thoughts and intimate partner violence perpetration, among young men in Tanzania from a representative community-based sample. Methods We conducted a cross sectional survey…

  • Characteristics of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence and implications for women’s HIV status

    Open AccessSalome Kuchukhidze, Dimitra Panagiotoglou et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase women’s HIV acquisition risk. Still, knowledge on pathways through which IPV exacerbates HIV burden is emerging. We examined the individual and partnership-level characteristics of male perpetrators of physical and/or sexual IPV and considered their implications for women’s HIV status. We pooled individual-level data from nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys in 27 countries in Africa (200…

  • The short and long-term impact of Covid-19 restrictions on women’s mental health in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Open AccessHeidi Stöckl, Neema Mosha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 outbreak had a profound impact on all countries in the world, leading governments to impose various forms of restrictions on social interactions and mobility, including complete lockdowns. While the impact of lockdowns on the emerging mental health crisis has been documented in high income countries, little is known whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic also effected mental health in settings with few or no COVID-19 restrictions in p…

  • The association between alcohol consumption and intimate partner violence in young male perpetrators in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Open AccessOlena Shubina, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Although alcohol consumption is a well-known risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, few studies have been conducted among young males in low- and middle-income countries. Alcohol consumption and IPV are both complex phenomena, whose association requires more in-depth exploration regarding drinking patterns and the alcohol-related manifestation of five different forms of IPV. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we sought t…

  • Sexual Harassment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Open AccessSelina Hardt, Heidi Stöckl et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2023

    Sexual harassment is a pervasive form of gender-based violence that has negative social and health impacts, yet there is only limited research available on sexual harassment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this qualitative systematic review was to better understand how participants across a variety of countries and settings conceptualized sexual harassment and to investigate its causal factors, consequences, coping strateg…

  • The Co-Occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence and Violence Against Children

    Open AccessIsabelle Pearson, Sabrina Page et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2023

    Violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) are public health issues of global concern. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a commonly occurring form of VAW and there is evidence to suggest that IPV and VAC frequently co-occur within the same families. This systematic literature review searched for studies published in any language between 1 st January 2000 to 16 th February 2021 and identified 33 studies that provided finding…