Stephanie M Topp

Dados Biográficos

ID1724514
NOMEStephanie M Topp
PRENOMESStephanie M
SOBRENOMETopp
ASSINATURATOPP S M
AFILIAÇÕESJames Cook University
ORCID0000-0002-3448-7983
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES43
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • The intersection of emergency care, human resources and health equity

    Open AccessVeena Sriram, Stephanie M Topp et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    Strengthening systems of emergency healthcare is crucial to achieving global and national health goals. One of the key challenges in improving emergency care systems is the insufficient attention given to human resources for health (HRH) tasked with delivering this care. The intersection of emergency care policy and systems, human resources and health equity is an underdeveloped area of research and practice. In this project, we used HRH framewor…

  • Sugar, power and policy

    Open AccessLana Elliott, Gade Waqa et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    BACKGROUND: In 2006, the Fiji Government introduced a 0.05FJ$ (0.03USD) per litre excise tax on domestically produced sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Since then, the tax has been abandoned, reintroduced, or adjusted at least ten times, while tariffs on imported SSBs have also undergone reform. These rapid iterations of Fiji's SSB tax raise questions about which interests and motivations underpin the tax, what instigated the multiple adjustments…

  • Community engagement approaches and influencing factors in Aedes mosquito management

    Open AccessTammy Allen, Alan Crouch et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study provides new insights into why authorities adopt specific community engagement approaches in Aedes mosquito management, within a high-income country context. It identifies barriers to enhancing community engagement and suggests strategies for addressing them in future planning. These findings are particularly relevant given the increasing Aedes mosquito risk in similar high-income country settings

  • Watered down

    Open AccessLana Elliott, Gade Waqa et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Vanuatu and Fiji are praised for their alignment with the World Health Organization’s noncommunicable diseases Best Buy policy recommendations. SSB taxes also intersect with economic, trade and commercial interests as well as complex domestic and international power dynamics. Yet, to date, the role of these broader interests and power dynamics in shaping SSB tax adoption in Vanuatu and Fiji has remaine…

  • We need to talk about ‘bad’ resilience

    Open AccessDell D Saulnier, Stephanie M ToppARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    In this analysis, we argue against seeing health system resilience as an inherently positive concept. The rise in the popularity of health system resilience has led to its increasingly normative framing. We question this widely accepted perspective by examining the underlying assumptions associated with this normative framing of ‘good’ resilience. Our focus is on the risks of accepting the assumption, which can lead us to ignore the social nature…

  • The puzzle of intersectoral collaboration and health. Revisiting implementation research

    Open AccessDaniel Maceira, Stephanie M ToppARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    [Extract] Advancing the field of health systems research requires drawing from diverse bodies of knowledge. This involves not only deepening expertise within our own intellectual domains but also engaging with the research interests, experiential knowledge and skills of others. It requires a commitment to understanding different perspectives, and seeking opportunities for cross-fertilization and knowledge expansion. This is not a simple task. We …

  • Economic exclusion and the health and wellbeing impacts of the oil industry in the Niger Delta region

    Open AccessAugusta C Nkem, Sue Devine et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2024

    Addressing these issues requires integrated policy interventions focusing on equitable resource distribution, environmental restoration, and inclusive economic development to promote sustainable community resilience

  • Democratising data to address health system inequities in Australia

    Open AccessStephanie M Topp, Fintan Thompson et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Understanding the health status of a population or community is crucial to equitable service planning. Among other uses, data on health status can help local and national planners and policy makers understand patterns and trends in current or emerging health and well-being, especially how disparities relating to geography, ethnicity, language and living with disability influence access to services. In this practice paper we draw attention to the …

  • A sweet deal for domestic industry

    Open AccessLana Elliott, Gade Waqa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: The Government of Vanuatu introduced an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in 2015. While lauded for its alignment with the WHO's Best Buys recommendations for addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), little is known about the tax's adoption process or whose interests it serves. METHODS: Using case study methodology, this study examined how and why Vanuatu's SSB tax was introduced. Policy documents, key informant int…

  • Factors influencing the community participation approaches used in Aedes mosquito management in the Torres Strait, Australia

    Open AccessTammy Allen, Alan Crouch et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This study revealed the use of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to engaging the community in Aedes mosquito management in the Torres Strait. These findings contribute to a better understanding of why bottom-up approaches are used, which is valuable for shaping future policy decisions. This study also provides suggestions on ways to enhance community participation in the Torres Strait, which could also be considered in other similar tropical…

  • Challenges to managing quality of care in northern Queensland residential aged care facilities

    Open AccessNathan Dawes, Stephanie M ToppARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2022

    Senior management teams in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) face a range of challenges in providing quality health care services. With increasing attention directed at quality problems in Australian RACFs, there is an urgent need to better understand the experiences of this crucial cadre. This qualitative study sought to identify challenges from the perspective of current senior managers in residential aged care (RAC) organisations and ma…

  • The impact of oil industry-related social exclusion on community wellbeing and health in African countries

    Open AccessAugusta C Nkem, Stephanie M Topp et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Oil is the mainstay revenue for a number of African countries. However, extraction can result in multiple impacts on the health and wellbeing of communities living in oil-rich areas. This review explored evidence of oil industry-related social exclusion on community health and wellbeing on the African continent. Methods: We used a systematic approach guided by PRISMA to search six databases for empirical and descriptive sources focuse…

  • Rethinking trust in the context of mistreatment of women during childbirth

    Open AccessVeloshnee Govender, Stephanie M Topp et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    [Extract] The mistreatment of women during childbirth is a global phenomenon.1 Mistreatment includes physical and verbal abuse, violations of privacy, stigma and discrimination, and neglect and abandonment. To date, much of the focus has been on measuring this phenomenon and the interpersonal relationships between women and health workers and the role of and abuse of power by these workers.2 However, more recently, there have been increasing call…

  • Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research

    Open AccessTolib Mirzoev, Stephanie M Topp et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is critical in developing health systems to better meet the health needs of their populations. The highly contextualised nature of health systems point to the value of local knowledge and the need for context-embedded HPSR. Despite such need, relatively few individuals, groups or organisations carry out HPSR, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Greater effort is required to strengthen …

  • A summative content analysis of how programmes to improve the right to sexual and reproductive health address power

    Open AccessMarta Schaaf, Victoria Boydell et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Power shapes all aspects of global health. The concept of power is not only useful in understanding the current situation, but it is also regularly mobilised in programmatic efforts that seek to change power relations. This paper uses summative content analysis to describe how sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes in low-income and middle-income countries explicitly and implicitly aim to alter relations of power. METHODS: …

  • The population health role of academic health centres

    Open AccessAlexandra Edelman, Judy Taylor et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2022

    BACKGROUND: Academic health centres (AHCs) are organisations that aim to mobilise knowledge into practice by improving the responsiveness of health systems to emerging evidence. This study aims to explore the population health role of AHCs in Australia and England, where AHCs represent novel organisational forms. METHODS: A multiple-case study design using qualitative methods was used to explore population health goals and activities in four disc…

  • A controlled study to assess the effects of a Fast Track (FT) service delivery model among stable HIV patients in Lusaka Zambia

    Open AccessCarolyn Bolton‐Moore, Jake M Pry et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Fast Track models—in which patients coming to facility to pick up medications minimize waiting times through foregoing clinical review and collecting pre-packaged medications—present a potential strategy to reduce the burden of treatment. We examine effects of a Fast Track model (FT) in a real-world clinical HIV treatment program on retention to care comparing two clinics initiating FT care to five similar (in size and health care level), standar…

  • Building patient trust in health systems

    Open AccessStephanie M Topp, Josslyn Tully et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 2Referências: 37

    Healthcare services in Australia are the primary responsibility of state and territory governments, which recruit and deploy health providers in hospital and primary-care services. Among the various health professional roles, that of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker (A&TSIHW) is one of only two positions that must be occupied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, carrying unique responsibility for enacting cult…

  • Power analysis in health policy and systems research

    Open AccessStephanie M Topp, Marta Schaaf et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, more nuanced understandings of the mechanisms and structures leading to social inequities and health disparities; placing contemporary policy concerns in a wider historical, political and social context; and for contributing t…

  • Unique knowledge, unique skills, unique role

    Open AccessStephanie M Topp, Josslyn Tully et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (A&TSIHWs) are a professional cadre of Australian health workers typically located in primary care clinics. The role is one of only two that is ‘identified’— that is, it must be occupied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person — and holds specific responsibilities in relation to advocating for facility-level cultural safety. However, lack of understanding of the distinctive skills…

  • Modified scoping review of the enablers and barriers to implementing primary health care in the Covid-19 context

    Open AccessAlexandra Edelman, Rainer Martens et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Since the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978, countries have varied in their progress towards establishing and sustaining comprehensive primary health care (PHC) and realizing its associated vision of ‘Health for All’. International health emergencies such as the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic underscore the importance of PHC in underpinning health equity, including via access to routine essential services and emergency responsiveness. This review …

  • “ Most of what they do, we cannot do !” How lay health workers respond to barriers to uptake and retention in HIV care among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in Malawi

    Open AccessStephanie M Topp, Nicole B Carbone et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: In the era of Option B+ and 'treat all' policies for HIV, challenges to retention in care are well documented. In Malawi, several large community-facility linkage (CFL) models have emerged to address these challenges, training lay health workers (LHW) to support the national prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme. This qualitative study sought to examine how PMTCT LHW deployed by Malawi's three most prevalent CFL…

  • The community health worker as service extender, cultural broker and social change agent

    Open AccessMarta Schaaf, Caitlin Warthin et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    This paper is a critical interpretive synthesis of community health workers (CHWs) and accountability in low-income and middle-income countries. The guiding questions were: What factors promote or undermine CHWs as accountability agents? (and) Can these factors be intentionally fostered or suppressed to impel health system accountability? We conducted an iterative search that included articles addressing the core issue of CHWs and accountability,…

  • Power and politics

    Open AccessStephanie M ToppARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    [Extract:] Since the watershed moment of the 2014 Ebola \nepidemic in West Africa and again in the midst \nof the current COVID-19 crisis, the concept of \nhealth system resilience has been a recurring \ntheme in global health discussions.1 2 Although \nmost frequently used in the context of epidemic \nresponse, resilience has also been framed as a \n‘key pillar’ of health,3 \n and invoked in high-level \ncalls for countries to ‘lead the work on …

  • “Together we move a mountain”

    Open AccessPrashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas, Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    It was otherwise an unremarkable November bus ride from Antwerp to Montreux; cold, but in the rather warm company of early career researchers who were to soon become the first cohort of Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH; http://www.ev4gh.net). On that ride, 52 early career health system researchers from 30 countries began a journey. Little did they know it would continue for over a decade, gathering in its wake, 208 more early career resea…