Participants of the PPHSN Regional Meeting In July 2025, Alastair Donachie, Research Fellow with the IDIE team, attended the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) Regional Meeting in Nadi, Fiji. This marked a significant milestone, with IDIE participating...
IDIE’s Associate Professor Meru Sheel spoke to the Development Intelligence Lab’s The Intel highlighting the significant yet often overlooked impact of global aid cuts on health systems in the Indo-Pacific region. While these cuts may be smaller in scale...
In October 2024, A/Prof Meru Sheel, Cyra Patel, and Dr Gemma Saravanos travelled to Vientiane to present the findings from an Evaluation of the Lao Electronic Immunisation Register to the Lao Government, Ministry of Health and the National Immunisation Programme. ...
Research conducted by the IDIE played a key role in a groundbreaking study in Fiji, which uncovered lower vaccination rates among children with disabilities. These findings are now guiding national policy reforms aimed at enhancing inclusion and improving access to...
In October 2023, the IDIE team together with the Linked Immunisation Action Network hosted country teams from Bhutan, Laos, Indonesia, and Vietnam for a study tour of the Australian Electronic Immunisation Registry (EIR). The study tour was undertaken to investigate...
A/Prof Meru sheel presenting on study findings in FijiStudy coordinator Unise Vakaloloma from Fiji National University providing study information
Immunisation outreach clinic in Vientiane Province, Lao PDR It’s almost the end of World Immunization Week and it’s the current climate its now more than ever important to celebrate the successes of immunization programs. I personally have also been working in the...