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Pithavadian, R., Ramanathan, V., Micheal, S., & Dune, T. (2026). Health professionals’ approaches to support patient diversity in the assessment of vaginismus: A critical feminist qualitative study for inclusive care. Healthcare, 14(10), 1261. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14101261

Pithavadian, R. (2026). Referee report on "It brought to life the data:" Using a novel virtual affinity mapping technique for collaborative qualitative data analysis among global study teams [Peer review of a preprint]. VeriXiv. https://doi.org/10.21956/verixiv.3304.r8203

Lam, Y.K.A., Fleming, L., Nelson, J., Pithavadian, R., Mpofu, E., Hossain, Z., Liamputtong, P., Aibangbee, M., & Dune, T. (2026). Western Sydney migrant and refugee youths’ perspectives about access and use of contraception in Australia: A qualitative study. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01271-9

Rutherford, H., Dale, M., Wootton, S., Pithavadian, R., Dennis, S., Brown, S., Alison, J.A., Chan, A.S.L., Yang, I.A. and McKeough, Z. (2025). Experiences of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation with mHealth and centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study. Health Expectations, 28: e70181. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70181

Pithavadian R., Chalmers J., Ramanathan V. & Dune T., (2024). People discuss the men who can’t get it up, but what about the women who can’t get it in? Women’s help-seeking experiences for sexual pain-penetration disorder, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100480

Pithavadian, R., Dune, T., Chalmers, J., & Ramanathan, V. (2024). The interrelationship between women’s help-seeking experiences for vaginismus and their sense of self: A qualitative study and abductive analysis. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2024.2396134

Pithavadian, R., Dune, T. & Chalmers, J. (2024). Patients’ recommendations to improve help-seeking for vaginismus: a qualitative study. BMC Women's Health, 24(203).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03026-x

Heller, L.*, Pithavadian., R.*, Micheal, S., Chandio, N., Sanagavarapu, P., Parmar, J., Cartwright, S., Slack-Smith, L., & Arora, A. (2024). Parental perceptions of an oral health promotion program in early childhood education and care settings: A qualitative study. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12641 *both authors contributed equally as first-author.

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S.Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T.M. (2024). Barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant and refugee youth: An exploratory socioecological qualitative analysis. Youth4(4), 1538–1566. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4040099

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S.Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T. (2024). Socioecologies in shaping migrants and refugee youths’ sexual and reproductive health and rights: A participatory action research study. Reproductive Health21, 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-024-01879-x

Pithavadian, R., Chalmers, J., & Dune, T. (2023). The experiences of women seeking help for vaginismus and its impact on their sense of self: An integrative review. Women’s Health, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/17455057231199383

Aibangbee, M., Micheal, S., Mapedzahama, V., Liamputtong, P., Pithavadian, R., Hossain, S. Z., Mpofu, E., & Dune, T. (2023). Emerging evidence on programs and policies for migrant and refugee youth's sexual and reproductive health and rights: A scoping review. International Journal of Public Health68, 1605801. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2023.1605801

Moore, A., and Pithavadian, R. (2020). Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought. Journal of Global History, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000108

Moore, A., Towghi, F., Ashford, H., Dune, T., and Pithavadian, R. (2022). The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present. History and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232

Mpofu, E., Hossain, S. Z., Dune, T., Baghbanian, A., Aibangbee, A., Pithavadian, R., Mapedzahama, V., and Liamputtong, P. (2021). Contraception decision making by Australian Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Australian Youth: An exploratory study. Australian Psychologist, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00050067.2021.1978814