Lisa Vallely

Biographic Data

ID2474116
NAMELisa Vallely
GIVEN NAMESLisa
FAMILY NAMEVallely
SIGNATUREVALLELY L
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-8247-7683
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessElke Mitchell, Lisa Vallely et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026

    Unsafe abortion is a preventable contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality, particularly for young unmarried women in low resource settings. In Papua New Guinea, abortion is legally restricted and highly stigmatised, limiting access to safe abortion and post-abortion care, resulting in unsafe abortion. This paper explores young people's lived experiences and agency in relation to unsafe abortion. We undertook qualitative research between 20…

  • Visualising the impacts of Covid-19 on health service delivery during the height of the pandemic in Papua New Guinea; a photovoice study

    Open AccessJamee Newland, Agnes Mek et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026References: 11

    In Papua New Guinea (PNG), like other countries, health service access, engagement and the provision of primary health and public health infectious disease care changed dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand this disruption a photovoice study was conducted with community members (n = 12), clients of health services (n = 10) and healthcare workers (n = 5) and in six provinces in PNG during the third and largest wave…

  • This Vaccine is Not for Us’

    Open AccessA Persson, Ruthy Boli-Neo et al.ARTICLECanberra Anthropology2026References: 43

    Vaccine hesitancy is considered a growing problem worldwide. In Papua New Guinea, the vaccine for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was met with extraordinary fear and antipathy, resulting in one of the world’s lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination. Not only were there concerns about the vaccine’s safety, it was also perceived as a grave threat to sovereignty and religious faith. We draw on 131 qualitative interviews with health service clie…

  • Socio-structural influences on unintended pregnancy among girls aged 15–17 years in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessElke Mitchell, Herick Aeno et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Unintended pregnancy among adolescent girls is a public health priority globally, particularly in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where low contraceptive use among young people has resulted in some of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper investigates the socio-structural influences on adolescent girls' ability to prevent unintended pregnancies in PNG. METHODS: Qualitative research conducted between 2…

  • “If I am alive, I am happy”

    Open AccessLachlan M Faktor, Alyce N Wilson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Quality maternal and newborn healthcare is essential to improve experiences and health outcomes for mothers and babies. In many low to middle income countries, such as Papua New Guinea, there are initiatives to increase antenatal care attendance and facility births. To develop and implement initiatives that are appropriate, relevant, and contextualised to a community, it is important to understand how quality of care is perceived and defined by d…

  • The prioritisation of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Zambia and Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessLisa Vallely, Kelvin Kapungu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are neglected in public health policy, services and society at large. Effective interventions are available for some STI but seem not to be prioritised at global, regional or local levels. Zambia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have a high burden of STIs among pregnant women but little is known about the prioritisation of STI treatment and care among this group. We undertook a qualitative study to explore…

  • Acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted and genital infections among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessLisa Vallely, Priscilla Poga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    The self-collection of vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is reported from several low-and middle-income countries. However, the reporting on women's experiences of self-collection and same-day testing and treatment of STIs is less well described. In this paper, we present the acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing and treatment among pregnant women enro…

  • The effects of Covid-19 on maternal, newborn and child health services in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessLisa Vallely, Jamee Newland et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Papua New Guinea's health system faces ongoing challenges in the provision of maternal and child health and has some of the poorest health indicators in the world. In this paper, we describe the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health, as examples of primary health care services. We conducted 131 semi-structured interviews with different population groups in seven provinces (Jul-Nov 2021). A deductive analysis focused on identifying the i…

  • The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women

    Open AccessKate Burry, Kristen Beek et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Abortion is significantly restricted by law in most Pacific Island countries, impacting the rights, health and autonomy of people who experience pregnancy. We undertook qualitative research between February and August 2022 on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where abortion is illegal under most circumstances. We conducted interviews with women who had accessed or tried to access abortion services; people who had supported women to access abortion service…

  • The use of newborn foot length to identify low birth weight and preterm babies in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessAlice Mengi, Lisa Vallely et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

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  • Illegal abortion and reproductive injustice in the Pacific Islands

    Open AccessKate Burry, Kristen Beek et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2023

    The Oceania region is home to some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws, and there is evidence of Pacific Island women's reproductive oppression across several aspects of their reproductive lives, including in relation to contraceptive decision‐making, birthing, and fertility. In this paper we analyse documents from court cases in the Pacific Islands regarding the illegal procurement of abortion. We undertook inductive thematic analysis …

  • Partnership-defined quality approach to companionship during labour and birth in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessAlyce N Wilson, Pele Melepia et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Companionship during labour and birth is a critical component of quality maternal and newborn care, resulting in improved care experiences and better birth outcomes. Little is known about the preferences and experiences of companionship in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and how it can be implemented in a culturally appropriate way. The aim of this study was to describe perspectives and experiences of women, their partners and health providers regarding …

  • Strengthening routine immunization in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessChris Morgan, Olga PM Saweri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The national strategy addresses most local gaps, but implementation and resourcing requires greater commitment. Long-term strengthening requires a major increase in centrally-allocated resources, however there are immediate locally feasible steps within current resources that could boost coverage and quality of routine immunization especially through better population-based local planning, and stronger community engagement. Our results also sugge…

  • Youth-centred research to help prevent and mitigate the adverse health and social impacts of pregnancy amongst young Papua New Guineans

    Stephen Bell, Elissa Kennedy et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2018Cited by: 1References: 11

  • Ambiguous bodies, uncertain diseases

    Angela Kelly-Hanku, Sophie Ase et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017References: 8

    Local understandings of cervical cancer reflected the limitations of Tok Pisin as a lingua franca as well as the wider uncertain biomedical environment where diagnoses are assembled and shared. There is a clear need to improve understanding of the female reproductive organs in order that people, women in particular, can be better informed about cervical cancer and ultimately better receptive to intervention strategies

  • A model for community representation and participation in HIV prevention trials among women who engage in transactional sex in Africa

    Charles Shagi, Andrew J Vallely et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2008

    Actively engaging communities in effective partnerships for the design and implementation of HIV prevention research is vital to the successful conduct of ethically robust, locally-appropriate clinical trials in developing countries. This is especially true in vulnerable at-risk sub-populations, where definitions of "community", "participation" and "representation" can be difficult to apply. This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility…