Associate Professor Seye Abimbola
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Associate Professor Seye Abimbola

Associate Professor
Health Systems
Associate Professor Seye Abimbola
Project titleResearch student
How the securitisation of health issues influences international, national, and sub-national decision-makingDelaram AKHAVEIN
Towards dignity-based knowledge practices in Global HealthAlice BAYINGANA
“Are communities leading the way?”: Assessing community stakeholder involvement in Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) planning and oversight in Malawi and ZambiaMaureen LUBA
The Subtle Art of Learning in Health SystemsKyaw Myat THU

Publications

Journals

  • Baatiema, L., de-Graft Aikins, A., Koram, K., Kunfah, S., Allen, L., Abimbola, F., Kruk, M. (2024). Frontline health workers’ experiences of providing care for people living with non-communicable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 14(5). [More Information]
  • Keshri, V., Parveen, S., Abimbola, F., Mishra, B., Khurram, M., Peden, M., Norton, R., Jagnoor, J. (2024). The health workforce conundrum for burn care in Uttar Pradesh, India: a qualitative exploration. Global Public Health, 19(1), 2345370. [More Information]
  • Khan, M., Naidu, T., Torres, I., Noor, M., Bump, J., Abimbola, F. (2024). The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future. The Lancet, 403(10433), 1304-1308. [More Information]

2024

  • Baatiema, L., de-Graft Aikins, A., Koram, K., Kunfah, S., Allen, L., Abimbola, F., Kruk, M. (2024). Frontline health workers’ experiences of providing care for people living with non-communicable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 14(5). [More Information]
  • Keshri, V., Parveen, S., Abimbola, F., Mishra, B., Khurram, M., Peden, M., Norton, R., Jagnoor, J. (2024). The health workforce conundrum for burn care in Uttar Pradesh, India: a qualitative exploration. Global Public Health, 19(1), 2345370. [More Information]
  • Khan, M., Naidu, T., Torres, I., Noor, M., Bump, J., Abimbola, F. (2024). The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future. The Lancet, 403(10433), 1304-1308. [More Information]

2023

  • Ajisegiri, W., Abimbola, F., Tesema, A., Odusanya, O., Peiris, D., Joshi, R. (2023). "We just have to help": Community health workers' informal task-shifting and task-sharing practices for hypertension and diabetes care in Nigeria. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Liu, H. (2023). Adoption and scale-up of the cardiovascular Polypill: a realist institutional analysis. Health Policy and Planning, 38(1), 15-27. [More Information]
  • van Dijk, W., Grobbee, D., Schuit, E., van der Graaf, R., Groenwold, R., Laurijssen, S., Casadei, B., Roffi, M., Abimbola, F., De Vries, M. (2023). Applicability of European Society of Cardiology guidelines according to gross national income. European Heart Journal, 44(7), 598-607. [More Information]

2022

  • Thu, K., Bernays, S., Abimbola, F. (2022). A literature review exploring how health systems respond to acute shocks in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Conflict and Health, 16(1). [More Information]
  • Tesema, A., Peiris, D., Abimbola, F., Ajisegiri, W., Narasimhan, P., Mulugeta, A., Joshi, R. (2022). Community health extension workers' training and supervision in Ethiopia: Exploring impact and implementation challenges for non-communicable disease service delivery. PLoS Global Public Health, 2(11), e0001160. [More Information]
  • Morton, B., Vercueil, A., Masekela, R., Heinz, E., Reimer, L., Saleh, S., Kalinga, C., Seekles, M., Biccard, B., Chakaya, J., Abimbola, F., et al (2022). Consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in the publication of research from international partnerships. Anaesthesia, 77(3), 264-276. [More Information]

2021

  • Eboreime, E., Abimbola, F. (2021). A priori registration of global health research-necessity or absurdity? BMJ Global Health, 6(5), e006199. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Asthana, S., Cortes, C., Guinto, R., Jumbam, D., Louskieter, L., Kabubei, K., Munshi, S., Muraya, K., Okumu, F., et al (2021). Addressing power asymmetries in global health: Imperatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS Medicine, 18(4), e1003604. [More Information]
  • Eboreime, E., Olawepo, J., Banke-Thomas, A., Abejirinde, I., Abimbola, F. (2021). Appraising and addressing design and implementation failure in global health: A pragmatic framework. Global Public Health, 16(7), 1122-1130. [More Information]

2020

  • Srinivas, P., Henriksson, D., S Gordeev, V., Decoster, K., Topp, S., Abimbola, F. (2020). "Together we move a mountain": Celebrating a decade of the Emerging Voices for Global Health network. BMJ Global Health, 5(7), e003015. [More Information]
  • Faruqui, N., Bernays, S., Martiniuk, A., Abimbola, S., Arora, R., Lowe, J., Denburg, A., Joshi, R. (2020). Access to care for childhood cancers in India: perspectives of health care providers and the implications for universal health coverage. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1641. [More Information]
  • Tesema, A., Joshi, R., Abimbola, S., Ajisegiri, W., Narasimhan, P., Peiris, D. (2020). Addressing barriers to primary health-care services for noncommunicable diseases in the african region. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98(12), 906-908. [More Information]

2019

  • Storeng, K., Abimbola, F., Balabanova, D., McCoy, D., Ridde, V., Filippi, V., Roalkvam, S., Akello, G., Parker, M., Palmer, J. (2019). Action to protect the independence and integrity of global health research. BMJ Global Health, 4(3), 1-5. [More Information]
  • Palagyi, A., Marais, B., Abimbola, F., Topp, S., McBryde, E., Negin, J. (2019). Health system preparedness for emerging infectious diseases: A synthesis of the literature. Global Public Health, 14(12), 1847-1868. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Li, C., Mitchell, M., Everett, M., Casburn, K., Crooks, P., Hammond, R., Milling, H., Ling, L., Reilly, A., Martiniuk, A., et al (2019). On the same page: Co-designing the logic model of a telehealth service for children in rural and remote Australia. Digital Health, 5, 1-7. [More Information]

2018

  • Abimbola, F., Topp, S. (2018). Adaptation with robustness: the case for clarity on the use of 'resilience' in health systems and global health. BMJ Global Health, 3(1), 1-3. [More Information]
  • George, A., Campbell, J., Ghaffar, A., Abimbola, S. (2018). Advancing the science behind human resources for health: Highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health. Health Research Policy and Systems, 16(1), 80. [More Information]
  • Bailie, J., Cunningham, F., Bainbridge, R., Passey, M., Laycock, A., Bailie, R., Larkins, S., Brands, J., Ramanathan, S., Abimbola, F., et al (2018). Comparing and contrasting 'innovation platforms' with other forms of professional networks for strengthening primary healthcare systems for Indigenous Australians. BMJ Global Health, 3(3), 1-8. [More Information]

2017

  • Abimbola, F., Negin, J., Martiniuk, A. (2017). Charity begins at home in global health research funding. The Lancet Global Health, 5(1), e25-e27. [More Information]
  • Abdel-All, M., Putica, B., Praveen, D., Abimbola, F., Joshi, R. (2017). Effectiveness of community health worker training programmes for cardiovascular disease management in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMJ Open, 7(11), 1-11. [More Information]
  • Eboreime, E., Abimbola, F., Obi, F., Ebirim, O., Olubajo, O., Eyles, J., Nxumalo, N., Mambulu, F. (2017). Evaluating the sub-national fidelity of national Initiatives in decentralized health systems: Integrated Primary Health Care Governance in Nigeria. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1), 1-13. [More Information]

2016

  • Abimbola, F., Molemodile, S., Okonkwo, O., Negin, J., Jan, S., Martiniuk, A. (2016). 'The government cannot do it all alone': realist analysis of the minutes of community health committee meetings in Nigeria. Health Policy and Planning, 31(3), 332-345. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Amazan, R., Vizintin, P., Howie, L., Cumming, R., Negin, J. (2016). Australian higher education scholarships as tools for international development and diplomacy in Africa. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70(2), 105-120. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Ogunsina, K., Charles-Okoli, A., Negin, J., Martiniuk, A., Jan, S. (2016). Information, regulation and coordination: realist analysis of the efforts of community health committees to limit informal health care providers in Nigeria. Health Economics Review, 6(1), 1-16. [More Information]

2015

  • Eboreime, E., Abimbola, F., Bozzani, F. (2015). Access to Routine Immunization: A Comparative Analysis of Supply-Side Disparities between Northern and Southern Nigeria. PloS One, 10(12), 1-10. [More Information]
  • Martiniuk, A., Abimbola, F., Zwarenstein, M. (2015). Evaluation as evolution: a Darwinian proposal for health policy and systems research. Health Research Policy and Systems, 13(1), 15. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Olanipekun, T., Igbokwe, U., Negin, J., Jan, S., Martiniuk, A., Ihebuzor, N., Aina, M. (2015). How decentralisation influences the retention of primary health care workers in rural Nigeria. Global Health Action, 8(1), 1-11. [More Information]

2014

  • Ukwaja, K., Abimbola, F. (2014). A trial of mass isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis control. New England Journal of Medicine, 370(17), 1661-1661. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F., Martiniuk, A., Hackett, M., Glozier, N., Nikpour (Mohamed), A., Anderson, C. (2014). Early predictors of remission in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a systematic approach to reviewing prognostic factor studies. Neurological Research, 36(1), 1-12. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, F. (2014). Integration, community engagement, and polio eradication in Nigeria. The Lancet Global Health, 2(6). [More Information]

2013

  • Ukwaja, K., Alobu, I., Abimbola, S., Hopewell, P. (2013). Household catastrophic payments for tuberculosis care in Nigeria: Incidence, determinants, and policy implications for universal health coverage. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2(1), 1-9. [More Information]
  • Abimbola, S., Malik, A., Mansoor, G. (2013). The Final Push for Polio Eradication: Addressing the Challenge of Violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. PLoS Medicine, 10(10). [More Information]

2011

  • Abimbola, F., Martiniuk, A., Hackett, M., Anderson, C. (2011). The Influence of Design and Definition on the Proportion of General Epilepsy Cohorts with Remission and Intractability. Neuroepidemiology, 36(3), 204-212. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2022

  • Towards dignity-based knowledge practices in global health, Abimbola F, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

2019

  • Scale up of a primary care intervention for cardiovascular risk management in Malang, Indonesia, Patel A, Abimbola F, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases