Jul 11, 2024 | Project Update, Media, Podcast
Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in health care workers (HCWs) can result in morbidity and mortality and cause significant disruptions to health care services, patients and visitors as well as an added burden on the health system. Our recently...
Jun 3, 2024 | Media, Podcast, Project Update
On May 24, 2024, Papua New Guinea experienced a massive landslide in the Enga province. With more than 7,800 people affected by the landslide, many are displace from their homes or are lacking access to basic necessities. While the exact death toll is still unknown,...
May 16, 2024 | Featured, Media, Podcast
To celebrate 50 years since the World Health Assembly launched the Expanded Programme on Immunziation (EPI), IDIE’s Meru Sheel together with Dr Alexandra Hogan from UNSW, deconstructed the global analysis for this important landmark & what it means in an...
Apr 18, 2024 | Media, Podcast
Cyra Patel spent two weeks in March 2024 to speak with stakeholders for her PhD project on how technological innovations can strengthen immunisation systems. An electronic immunisation register was used for the first time in Vanuatu for the COVID-19 vaccination....
Apr 4, 2024 | Out of the box, Media, Podcast
IDIE’s A/Prof Meru Sheel talked about all things infectious diseases at the Raising the Bar event in Soultrap Bar. Preventing disease: get ahead of the curve Growing up, Associate Professor Meru Sheel saw infectious diseases make people very sick. This is how...
Dec 6, 2023 | Media, Podcast
A/Prof Sheel met with key stakeholders to share the findings from our study looking at vaccination in children with disability in Suva-Nausori area of Fiji.Working in partnership with our in-country leads, Frank Hilton Organization and Fiji National University and in...
