Tanya Jacobs

Datos Biográficos

ID7581590
NOMBRETanya Jacobs
NOMBRESTanya
APELLIDOJacobs
FIRMAJACOBS T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Western Cape
ORCID0000-0002-8566-4767
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Navigating context, power and politics

    Open AccessUlla Walmisley, Olagoke Akintola et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2026

    Gender is an intersectional determinant of health that remains insufficiently integrated in programmes and policies. Sustained processes of dialogue and collaboration, including participatory approaches such as co-design, are needed to effect gender integration. However, the contexts and power dynamics through which co-design may support gender integration are not well understood. This qualitative case study examined a co-design partnership that …

  • Participatory design partnerships for gender and health in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessUlla Walmisley, Gabriella Oliver et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    Gender inequality remains an intersectional determinant of health insufficiently addressed in programmes and policies. Progress requires systematic integration of gender perspectives but is constrained by the embeddedness of gender inequality across sectors, socioecological levels, and stakeholders. Participatory design approaches hold promise, but the role of participatory design partnerships in advancing gender equality remains underexplored. T…

  • Assessing progress in gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health interventions

    Open AccessT K Sundari Ravindran, Tk Sundari Ravindran et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Discriminatory gender norms and unequal power relations shape sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, approaches to assessing progress in gender-transformative interventions remain underdeveloped. OBJECTIVE: This paper compares measures and approaches to gender-transformative SRH interventions in the published evidence with practitioners' perspectives in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: The study draws on…

  • How gender is socially constructed in policy making processes

    Open AccessTanya Jacobs, Asha GeorgeARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    The constellation of actors' gender narratives reveals overlapping and contested framings of gender and what is required to advance gender equality. Understanding actor narratives in policy processes contributes to bridging the disconnect between policy commitments and reality in advancing the gender equality agenda

  • Adolescent health in the Sustainable Development Goal era

    Open AccessAsha George, Tanya Jacobs et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Adolescents are an increasing proportion of low and middle-income country populations. Their coming of age is foundational for health behaviour, as well as social and productive citizenship. We mapped intervention areas for adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including HIV, mental health and violence prevention to sectors responsible for them using a framework that highlights settings, roles and alignment. Out of 11 intervention areas, hea…

  • Democratic South Africa at 25 – a conceptual framework and narrative review of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health

    Open AccessTanya Jacobs, Asha GeorgeARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    Twenty-five years into South Africa’s constitutional democracy provides an opportunity to take stock of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health. Those born in democratic South Africa, commonly known as the ‘Born Frees’, are perceived to be able to realise equal rights and opportunities, yet many factors constrain their lives. In bringing together approaches to understanding context in health policy and systems research and the…

  • Policy foundations for transformation

    Open AccessTanya Jacobs, Asha George et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Global Strategy (2016–30) emphasize that all women, children and adolescents ‘survive, thrive and transform’. A key element of this global policy framework is that gender equality is a stand-alone goal as well as a cross-cutting priority. Gender inequality and intersecting social and structural determinants shape health systems, including the content of policy documents, with implica…

  • A scoping review of the determinants of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa

    Open AccessMichelle De Jong, Asha George et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects babies born to mothers who consume alcohol while pregnant. South Africa has the highest prevalence of FASD in the world. We review the social determinants underpinning FASD in South Africa and add critical insight from an intersectional feminist perspective. We undertook a scoping review, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews guidelines.…

  • Scaling up ART adherence clubs in the public sector health system in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessHayley Macgregor, Andrew Mckenzie et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: In 2011, a decision was made to scale up a pilot innovation involving 'adherence clubs' as a form of differentiated care for HIV positive people in the public sector antiretroviral therapy programme in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. In 2016 we were involved in the qualitative aspect of an evaluation of the adherence club model, the overall objective of which was to assess the health outcomes for patients accessing clubs th…