M Colombini

Datos Biográficos

ID412599
NOMBREM Colombini
NOMBRESM
APELLIDOColombini
FIRMACOLOMBINI M
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-7487-9634
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAS21
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Multisectoral collaboration on violence against women and children in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon

    Open AccessMervat Alhaffar, Nour Horanieh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Increasing global evidence highlights the significant intersections between violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC), emphasising the need for collaboration among actors addressing VAW and VAC. However, tensions regarding prioritising women’s and children’s needs have led to fragmented approaches, in addition to knowledge gaps regarding effective collaborative efforts. This study aims to assess how the coordination between…

  • A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Help-Seeking Behavior for Violence Against Women During South Africa’s ‘Hard’ Covid-19 Lockdown

    Open AccessNwabisa Shai, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2026

  • Health service responses and help-seeking for women experiencing violence during outbreaks in low- and middle-income settings

    Open AccessRose Burns, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    During outbreaks women struggle to access essential health services, including services for violence. Services may be disrupted or deprioritised, or women may avoid clinical settings. We conducted a scoping review to understand how health services for violence against women (VAW) were affected in low- and middle-income (LMIC) settings during recent outbreaks, and how women sought help following violence. We reviewed published academic literature …

  • Climate change, livelihoods, gender and violence in Rukiga, Uganda

    Open AccessRichard Muhumuza, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Climate change disproportionately affects poorer countries like Uganda, intensifying poverty and livelihood stress, which can escalate gender-based violence (GBV). Although the parent study was not designed to focus on GBV, GBV emerged repeatedly during interviews and focus groups; this paper presents a GBV-focused thematic analysis of those narratives. Particularly, we examine how GBV interconnects with poverty, shifting gender roles, alcoholism…

  • Political commitment and implementation

    Open AccessSophie M Morse, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    Violence against women (VAW) is a widespread concern globally and in Mexico, where in 2021, 44% of women aged ≥15 years have experienced some form of intimate partner violence during their relationship and a quarter have experienced sexual violence in the past 12 months. To respond, Mexico passed comprehensive legislation addressing VAW, which outlines the role of the health system in identifying, treating, and referring women experiencing violen…

  • Evaluation of an intervention to improve Primary Health Care’s response to cases of domestic violence against women - São Paulo, Brazil

    Open AccessStephanie Pereira, Yuri Nishijima Azeredo et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2024

    The aim was to analyse and improve the Primary Health Care (PHC) response to domestic violence against women (DVAW) by developing, implementing and evaluating an intervention. A pilot study evaluating the before and after of intervention implementation, using mixed methods and carried out in three phases - formative, intervention and evaluation - between August 2017 and March 2019 in two Basic Health Units (UBS) in the city of São Paulo. In this …

  • Avaliação de intervenção para aprimorar a resposta da Atenção Primária à Saúde ao cuidado de casos de violência doméstica contra a mulher - São Paulo, Brasil

    Open AccessStephanie Pereira, Yuri Nishijima Azeredo et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2024

    O objetivo foi analisar e aprimorar a resposta da Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) ao cuidado dos casos de violência doméstica contra a mulher (VDCM), desenvolvendo, implementando e avaliando uma intervenção. Pesquisa piloto de avaliação do antes e depois da implementação de uma intervenção, utilizando métodos mistos e realizada em três fases - linha de base, intervenção e avaliação - entre agosto/2017 e março/2019 em duas Unidades Básicas de Saúde…

  • If they see you bleeding they will quarantine you’

    Open AccessRose Burns, Neha Singh et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    There is increased awareness of the gendered impacts of outbreaks, including an exacerbation of violence against women and disruptions to essential health service delivery for women. However, there is limited understanding of women's own experiences of deciding to use the health system after experiencing violence in settings affected by major emergent outbreaks like Ebola and COVID-19. Drawing on data from 37 in-depth interviews and 4 focus group…

  • Comparing health systems readiness for integrating domestic violence services in Brazil, occupied Palestinian Territories, Nepal and Sri Lanka

    Open AccessM Colombini, Satya Shrestha et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Domestic violence (DV) is a global prevalent health problem leading to adverse health consequences, yet health systems are often unprepared to address it. This article presents a comparative synthesis of the health system’s pre-conditions necessary to enable integration of DV in health services in Brazil, Nepal, Sri Lanka and occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT). A cross-country, comparative analysis was conducted using a health systems readine…

  • Sexual violence against women by intimate partner and gender inequality in the voice of Primary Health Care professionals

    Open AccessLilia Blima Schraiber, Janaína Marques De Aguiar et al.ARTICLEInterface - Comunicação Saúde…2023Referencias: 7

    Studies show how difficult it is to recognize what is experienced in sexual relationships within households. There is an inaccuracy between violence as in the forced sex, and gender inequality as in the acceptance of the marital duty. We aimed to understand what health care providers think about these two experiences, how they interpret women's reports and what they do about it. Interviewed, the professionals say that both forced sex and sex with…

  • Violência sexual contra mulheres por parceiro íntimo e desigualdade de gênero na voz dos profissionais da Atenção Primária à Saúde

    Open AccessLilia Blima Schraiber, Janaína Marques De Aguiar et al.ARTICLEInterface - Comunicação Saúde…2023Referencias: 7

    É difícil reconhecer o sexo forçado vivido nas relações sexuais no âmbito doméstico como violência. Há também uma imprecisão entre a violência, tal como no sexo forçado, e a desigualdade de gênero, como na aceitação do dever marital. Buscou-se compreender o que profissionais da Atenção Primária pensam sobre essas duas experiências, como interpretam relatos das mulheres e o que fazem sobre isso. Entrevistados, os profissionais dizem que sexo força…

  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of PrEP Use Stigma Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Johannesburg, South Africa and Mwanza, Tanzania Participating in the Empower Trial

    Open AccessRichard J Munthali, Anne Stangl et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2022

    Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa may benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), yet stigma may limit PrEP acceptance and continuation. We examined factors associated with PrEP use stigma among 307 participants of the EMPOWER trial (2016-2018), an unblinded randomized controlled trial among HIV-negative, AGYW, aged 16-24, in South Africa and Tanzania. The 6-item, brief-PrEP use stigma scale (B-PSS) had high internal…

  • Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of integrating screening for gender-based violence into HIV counselling and testing for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania and South Africa

    Open Accesson behalf of the EMPOWER study team, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Most stakeholders found GBV screening acceptable and feasible. Key principles that should be in place for young women to be asked safely about GBV during HIV counselling and testing included respect for confidentiality, a youth-friendly and non-judgmental environment, and a functioning referral network

  • Disclosure of PrEP use by young women in South Africa and Tanzania

    F Scorgie, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    Investigating how young women disclose oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use is important given evidence that disclosure is associated with higher adherence. We report qualitative results on PrEP disclosure among young women in South Africa and Tanzania who participated in a PrEP demonstration project (EMPOWER). In total, 81 in-depth interviews were conducted with 39 young women aged 16-24 years-25 from Johannesburg and 14 from Mwanza-at appro…

  • Barriers to women’s disclosure of domestic violence in health services in Palestine

    Open AccessAmira Shaheen, suzy ashkar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Palestinian women's agency to be proactive in help-seeking for DV is clearly limited. Our findings can inform training of health professionals in Palestine to address these barriers, to increase awareness of the link between DV and many common presentations such as depression, to ask sensitively about DV in private, reassure women about confidentiality, and increase awareness among women of the role that health services can play in DV

  • Exploring health system readiness for adopting interventions to address intimate partner violence

    Open AccessM Colombini, Abdulsalam Alkaiyat et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020Citada por: 4Referencias: 25

    Domestic violence (DV) against women is a widespread violation of human rights. Adoption of effective interventions to address DV by health systems may fail if there is no readiness among organizations, institutions, providers and communities. There is, however, a research gap in our understanding of health systems’ readiness to respond to DV. This article describes the use of a health system’s readiness assessment to identify system obstacles to…

  • A new approach to assess the capability of health facilities to provide clinical care for sexual violence against women

    Open AccessMardieh Dennis, Mardieh L Dennis et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

    Several tools have been developed to collect information on health facility preparedness to provide sexual violence response services; however, little guidance exists on how this information can be used to better understand which functions a facility can perform. Our study therefore aims to propose a set of signal functions that provide a framework for monitoring the availability of clinical sexual violence services. To illustrate the potential i…

  • Factors shaping political priorities for violence against women-mitigation policies in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessM Colombini, Susannah H Mayhew et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2018

    BACKGROUND: Although violence against women (VAW) is a global public health issue, its importance as a health issue is often unrecognized in legal and health policy documents. This paper uses Sri Lanka as a case study to explore the factors influencing the national policy response to VAW, particularly by the health sector. METHODS: A document based health policy analysis was conducted to examine current policy responses to VAW in Sri Lanka using …

  • Missed treatment opportunities and barriers to comprehensive treatment for sexual violence survivors in Kenya

    Open AccessAnne Gatuguta, Katherine G Merrill et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Nationally, survivors at higher risk of not accessing healthcare include older survivors; partnered or ever partnered survivors; survivors experiencing sexual violence from intimate partners; children experiencing violence in schools; and men. Interventions at the community level should target survivors who are unlikely to access healthcare and address barriers to early access to care. Staff training and specific clinical guidelines/protocols for…

  • Mandated reporters’ experiences with reporting child maltreatment

    Open AccessJill R McTavish, Melissa Kimber et al.ARTICLEBMJ Open2017

    OBJECTIVE: To systematically search for research about the effectiveness of mandatory reporting of child maltreatment and to synthesise qualitative research that explores mandated reporters' (MRs) experiences with reporting. DESIGN: As no studies assessing the effectiveness of mandatory reporting were retrieved from our systematic search, we conducted a meta-synthesis of retrieved qualitative research. Searches in Medline (Ovid), Embase, PsycINFO…

  • Should community health workers offer support healthcare services to survivors of sexual violence? a systematic review

    Open AccessAnne Gatuguta, Barbra Katusiime et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2017

  • Fertility intentions and contraceptive practices among clinic-users living with HIV in Kenya

    Open Accessfor the Integra Initiative, Susannah H Mayhew et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Integra is a non-randomised pre-post intervention trial registered with Current Controlled Trials ID: NCT01694862

  • Numbers, systems, people

    Open AccessSusannah H Mayhew, Stuart Sweeney et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Citada por: 5Referencias: 35

    Drawing on rich data from the Integra evaluation of integrated HIV and reproductive-health services, we explored the interaction of systems hardware and software factors to explain why some facilities were able to implement and sustain integrated service delivery while others were not. This article draws on detailed mixed-methods data for four case-study facilities offering reproductive-health and HIV services between 2009 and 2013 in Kenya: (i) …

  • Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Health Service Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

    Open AccessM Colombini, Colleen Dockerty et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 30

    This systematic review synthesizes 11 studies of health‐sector responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The services that were most comprehensive and integrated in their responsiveness to IPV were primarily in primary health and antenatal care settings. Findings suggest that the following facilitators are important: availability of clear guidelines, policies, or protocols; management support; intersectoral…

  • Bridging the gaps

    Open AccessAlessandra Guedes, Shannon Bott et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: The international community recognises violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) as global human rights and public health problems. Historically, research, programmes, and policies on these forms of violence followed parallel but distinct trajectories. Some have called for efforts to bridge these gaps, based in part on evidence that individuals and families often experience multiple forms of violence that may be…