Research

Research

For further information on our research and publications, or if you have any issues accessing an article please contact - Professor Jane Tomnay: jtomnay@unimelb.edu.au.

Publication Listing

The below is a list  of completed research, academic publications and reports by CERSH staff, grouped by year of publication.

  • 2023

    Noonan A, Black KI, Luscombe GM, Tomnay J. What women want from local primary care services for unintended pregnancy in rural Australia: a qualitative study from rural New South Wales. Australian Journal of Primary Health, [s. l.], v. 29, n. 3, p. 244–251, 2023. DOI 10.1071/PY22134.

    Mazza M, Rojanapenkul A, Assifi S, Hussainy Y, Bateson D, Johnston S, Tomnay J, Kasza J, Church J, Grzeskowiak L, Nissen L et al. Expanding community pharmacists’ scope of practice in relation to contraceptive counselling and referral: a protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster randomised trial (ALLIANCE) BMJ Open 2023-08. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073154

    James, S, Kunnel, A, Tomnay J, Mazza D, Grzeskowiak L. Long-acting reversible contraception prescribing coverage by nurse practitioners and midwives in Australia, Collegian, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2023.04.004i

    Noonan A, Black KI, Luscombe GM, Tomnay J. “Almost like it was really underground”: a qualative study of women’s experiences locating services for unintended pregnancy in a rural Australian health system. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, [s.l.], v. 31, n. 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2023.2213899.

    Bourke, S., Munira, S. L., Parkinson, A., Lancsar, E., & Desborough, J. (2023). Exploring the barriers and enablers of diabetes care in a remote Australian context: A qualitative study. PloS one, 18(7), e0286517. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286517

    Evans, D., Cowen, K., Fairley, C., Randall, C., Hocking, J., Ludwick, T., & Tomnay, J. (2024). STI-X: a novel approach to STI testing in rural and regional Victoria, Australia. Sexual health, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1071/SH23118

    Mazza, D., Assifi, A. R., Hussainy, S. Y., Bateson, D., Johnston, S., Tomnay, J., Kasza, J., Church, J., Grzeskowiak, L. E., Nissen, L., & Cameron, S. T. (2023). Expanding community pharmacists' scope of practice in relation to contraceptive counselling and referral: a protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster randomised trial (ALLIANCE). BMJ open, 13(8), e073154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073154

    Mazza, D., Shankar, M., Botfield, J. R., Moulton, J. E., Chakraborty, S. P., Black, K., Tomnay, J., Bateson, D., Church, J., Laba, T. L., Kasza, J., & Norman, W. V. (2023). Improving rural and regional access to long-acting reversible contraception and medical abortion through nurse-led models of care, task-sharing and telehealth (ORIENT): a protocol for a stepped-wedge pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial in Australian general practice. BMJ open, 13(3), e065137. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065137

  • 2022

    Goller J, Coombe J, Temple-Smith M, Bittleston H, Sanci L, Guy R,Fairley C, Regan D,Carvalho N, Simpson J, Donovan B, Tomnay J, Chen MY, Estcourt C, Roeske L, Hawkes D, Hocking J. Management of Chlamydia Cases in Australia (MoCCA): protocol for a non-randomised implementation and feasibility trial. BMJ Open 2022;12:e067488. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067488

    Noonan A, Black K.I., Luscombe G.M., Tomnay J. What women want from local primary care services for unintended pregnancy in rural Australia: a qualitative study from rural New South Wales. Australian Journal of Primary Health , https://doi.org/10.1071/PY22134 Oct 2022.

    Moulton JE, Mazza D, Tomnay J, Bateson D, Norman WV, Black KI, et al. Co- design of a nurse- led model of care to increase access to medical abortion and contraception in rural and regional general practice: A protocol. Aust J Rural Health. 2022;30:876–883. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12937

    Coombe J, Goller J,  Bittleston H,  Bateson D,  Bourne C,  O’Donnell H,  Tomnay J,  Temple-Smith M,  Hocking JS. 'Patient-delivered partner therapy: one option for the management of the sexual partner/s of a patient diagnosed with a chlamydia infection'. The Australian Journal of General Practice. Volume 51, Issue 6, June 2022. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-07-21-6066

  • 2021

    Christina Malatzky & Alana Hulme (2021): ‘I love my job…it’s more the systems that we work in’: the challenges encountered by rural sexual and reproductive health practitioners and implications for access to care, Culture, Health & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2021.1880640

    Goller J, Coombe J, Bittleston H, Bourne C, Bateson D, Vaisey A, Tomnay J, O’Donnell H, Garret C, Estcourt C, Temple-Smith M, Hocking J. Patient delivered partner therapy for chlamydia infection is used by some general practitioners, but more support is needed to increase uptake: findings from a mixed-methods study. Sexually Transmitted Infections Published Online First: 30 June 2021. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054933

    Layton E, Goller JL, Coombe J, Temple-Smith M, Tomnay J, Vaisey A, Hocking JS. 'It's literally giving them a solution in their hands': the views of young Australians towards patient-delivered partner therapy for treating chlamydia. Sex Transm Infect. 2021 Jun;97(4):256-260. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054820. Epub 2021 Jan 13. PMID: 33441448.

    Aung ET, Chen MY, Fairley CK, Higgins N, Williamson DA, Tomnay JE, Cook KA, Peel J, Dharmakulasinghe V, Alpren C, Chow EPF. Spatial and Temporal Epidemiology of Infectious Syphilis in Victoria, Australia, 2015–2018. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2021; 48(12): e178-e182. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001438

    Coombe J, Kong F, Bittleston H, Williams H, Tomnay J, Vaisey A, Malta S, Goller J, Temple-Smith M, Bourchier L, Lau A & Hocking J (2021). Contraceptive use and pregnancy plans among women of reproductive age during the first Australian COVID-19 lockdown: findings from an online survey, The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, DOI: 10.1080/13625187.2021.1884221

  • 2020

    Coombe J, Kong F, Bittleston H, Williams H, Tomnay J, Vaisey A, Malta S, Goller J, Temple-Smith M, Bourchier L, Lau A, Chow E, Hocking J. Love during lockdown. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2020;0:1–7. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2020-054688.

    Coombe J, Goller J, Bittleston H, Vaisey A, Sanci L, Groos A, Tomnay J, Temple-Smith M, Hocking J. 'STIs, partner notification and intimate relationships: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of general practitioners and people with a recent chlamydia infection'.  Sexual Health. 2020 Dec;17(6):503-509. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH20109.

    Goller Jane L., Coombe Jacqueline, Bourne Christopher, Bateson Deborah, Temple-Smith Meredith, Tomnay Jane, Vaisey Alaina, Chen Marcus Y., O’Donnell Heather, Groos Anita, Sanci Lena, Hocking Jane (2020) Patient-delivered partner therapy for chlamydia in Australia: can it become part of routine care? Sexual Health 17, 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH20024 May 2020

    Wagg E, Hocking JS, Tomnay JE. 'What do young women living in regional and rural Victoria say about chlamydia testing? A qualitative study.' Sexual Health 17, 160-166.March 2020.https://doi.org/10.1071/SH19182.

  • 2019

    Goller J, Coombe J, Bourne C, Temple-Smith M, Tomnay J, Vaisey A, Chen M, ODonnell H, Groos A, Sanci L, Hocking J. Patient delivered partner therapy for chlamydia in Australia – can it become part of routine care? Sexual Health. Sexual Health https://doi.org/10.1071/SH20024 May 2020.

    Wagg E, Hocking JS, Tomnay JE. 'What do young women living in regional and rural Victoria say about chlamydia testing? A qualitative study.' Sexual Health 17, 160-166.March 2020.https://doi.org/10.1071/SH19182.

    Iturrieta-Guaita N, Temple-Smith J, Tomnay J. Experiences from the field: Chilean healthcare providers’ perspectives on partner notification for syphilis – a qualitative case study. Brazilian Journal of STD, 2019; 31(3):90-95. doi:10.5327/DST-2177-8264-201931304.

    Bilardi JE, Hulme-Chambers A, Chen MY, Fairley CK, Huffam SE, Tomnay JE. The role of stigma in the acceptance and disclosure of HIV among recently diagnosed men who have sex with men in Australia: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE 2019; 14(11): e0224616. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224616

    Iturrieta-Guaita, N, Temple-Smith M, Tomnay JE. Using electronic communication technologies for improving syphilis partner notification in Chile: healthcare providers’ perspectives – a qualitative case study. Sexual Health 2019:16(4) 377-382 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH19007.

  • 2018

    Hulme-Chambers A, Clune S, Tomnay J. Medical termination of pregnancy service delivery in the context of decentralization: social and structural influences. International Journal for Equity in Health 2018; 17:172

    Hulme Chambers A (2018), Understanding models for delivering sexual health services in rural Victoria, Report completed April 2018

    Hulme Chambers A, Tomnay J, Stephens KCrouch A, Whiteside M, Love P, McIntosh L, Waples Crowe P.  Facilitators of community participation in an Aboriginal sexual health promotion initiative. Rural and Remote Health 2018; 18: 4245.

    Tomnay J, Coelli L, Davidson A, Hulme Chambers A, Orr C, Hocking J. Providing accessible medical abortion service in a Victorian rural community: A description and audit of service delivery and contraception follow up. Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

    Hulme Chambers, A, Temple-Smith, M, Coelli L, Davidson A, Orr, C, Tomnay, J. (2018). Australian women’s experiences of a rural medical termination of pregnancy service: A qualitative study. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare; 15: 23-27

  • 2017

    Tomnay JE, Coelli L, and Hocking JS. High rates of chlamydia found among 12-16 year olds attending a rural sexual health clinic: Implications for practice. Sexual Health: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH15140.

    Winterton R, Hulme Chambers A. (2016) Developing sustainable social programmes for rural ethnic seniors: perspectives of community stakeholders. Health and Social Care in the Community, DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12373

    Iacono T, Stagg K, Pearce N, Hulme Chambers A. (2016) A scoping review of Australian allied health research in ehealth. BMC Health Services Research, 16(543), DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1791-x

  • 2016

Conferences & Presentations

The CERSH team have also been involved in presenting at various conferences. See a list of where our team have presented and further information about the topics.

  • 2023

    Evans, D, Kelly, AM, Corio, B. and Tomnay, JE. (2023). STI-X: A novel approach to STI testing in rural and regional Victoria, Australia. 26th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health. Antalya, Türkiye.

    Kelly, AM, Colquhoun, A, Corio, B, Evans, D. and Tomnay, JE. (2023). SWAPs: Sexual Wellness Action Plans boost community commitment and engagement. 26th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health. Antalya, Türkiye.

    Evans, D., Wright, C., Davis, A., Castree, N., Orozco, A., Corio, B., Lakey, T., Kjellstrand, M.V., Langstone, A., Jennings, R., Burns, W., Lim, M.S.C. (2023). The Gist: A comprehensive approach to porn education. 26th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health. Antalya, Türkiye.

    Evans, D, Kelly AM, Corio, B. and Tomnay, JE. (2023). Comprehensive STI testing in self-accessible vending machines. 1st Australasian Conference on Point of Care Testing for Infectious Diseases. Sydney, Australia.

    Bond S, Wigan R, Giles ML, Kane S, Posma E, Hodges R, McCully B, Giarrusso R, Ryder N, Bilardi J, Chow E, Fairley CK, Tomnay JE, Hocking J, Temple-Smith M, Kaldor J, Donovan B, Chen M (July 24-27 2023). Using implementation science to develop an adaptable clinical systems implementation package to embed routine syphilis screening in later pregnancy into clinical practice. STI & HIV World Congress, Chicago USA.

  • 2022

    Evans, D. (2022). Relationships and sexuality education curricula decision makers: parents, a nice to have, but not a necessity. Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education, UNESCO and UNFPA. Paris, France.

    Noonan A, Black KI, Luscombe GM, Tomnay JE (3-5 August 2022). What women want from primary care services for unintended pregnancy in rural Australia: A qualitative study from rural New South Wales. Children By Choice 2022 Reproductive Rights and Abortion Conference: Towards Universal Access, Brisbane, Australia.

    Noonan A, Black KI, Luscombe GM, Tomnay JE. (2-4 August 2022 Brisbane). What women want from primary care services for unintended pregnancy in rural Australia : A qualitative study from rural New South Wales. 16th National Rural Health Conference.

    Moulton JE, Subasinghe AK, Shankar M, Botfield JR, Bateson D, Tomnay JE, Norman WV, Black K, Mazza D 2022(3-5 August 2022). ‘A nurse-led model of care for long-acting reversible contraception and early medical abortion provision in rural and regional general practice: Outcomes of a codesign process’, Children By Choice 2022 Reproductive Rights and Abortion Conference: Towards Universal Access, Brisbane, Australia.

    Mazza D, Shankar M, Subasinghe AK, Botfield JR, Chakraborty S, Moulton JE, Hamill K, Black K, Tomnay JE, Bateson D, McGeechan K, Laba T, Norman WV 2022 (3-5 August 2022). ‘The ORIENT Trial: protocol for evaluating the effect of a nurse-led model on contraception & medical abortion access in Australian rural and regional general practice’. Children By Choice 2022 Reproductive Rights and Abortion Conference: Towards Universal Access, Brisbane, Australia.

    Mazza D, Shankar M, Subasinghe AK, Botfield JR, Moulton JE, Hamill K, Black K, Tomnay JE, Bateson D, McGeechan K, Laba T, Norman WV (August 2022). ORIENT: protocol for evaluating effect of a nurse-led model on contraception & medical abortion access in Australian rural general practice. National Rural Health Conference, Perth Australia.

    Bourke S and Tomnay JE (May 2022). An Australian first: Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Education for Medical Students delivered over the entirety of MD at The University of Melbourne. 16th ESCRH Congress Ghent Belgium.

    Bourke S and Tomnay JE (2022). Choose your own MD adventure! Four-year Sexual Health Care Education for Medical Students at The University of Melbourne. 2022 Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS and Sexual Health Conferences Brisbane Australia.

    Mazza D, Hussainy S, Bateson D, Johnston S, Tomnay JE, McGeechan K, Church J, Cameron S, Grzeskowiak L, Nissen L, Chakraborty S, Assifi A, Buckingham P.Protocol (June 2022) for ALLIANCE (Quality Family Planning Services and Referrals in Community Pharmacy: Expanding Pharmacists’ Scope of Practice): A stepped-wedge trial. 27th WONKA Europe Conference. World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians. London.

    Mazza D, Hussainy S, Bateson D, Johnston S, Tomnay JE, McGeechan K, Church J, Cameron S, Grzeskowiak L, Nissen L, Chakraborty S, Assifi A, Buckingham P.Protocol (July 2022) for ALLIANCE (Quality Family Planning Services and Referrals in Community Pharmacy: Expanding Pharmacists’ Scope of Practice): A stepped-wedge trial. Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) 50th Annual Scientific Meeting.Preston, Lancashire England.

  • 2021

    Invited Presentations

    Tomnay JE. (October 2021). Working with WHO on HIV testing and contact tracing programs. Australian and New Zealand Nurses in AIDS Care AGM.

    Tomnay JE. (March 12th & 13th 2021). Regional and Remote HIV Programs and Projects. Going the full 360: The Continuum of HIV Care Gilead conference. Melbourne Hub.