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“154 million lives saved in 50 years: 5 charts on the global success of vaccines.”
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 article...
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Using digital tools to strengthen immunisation system in Vanuatu
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....
Raising the bar- Meru Sheel
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 she...
Result Dissemination: Immunisation and children with disability study, Fiji
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...
Working together (and staying apart) during COVID-19
Women on the Line 3CR Community Radio It’s a strange time at the moment, a time to stick together, while doing our best to physically stay apart. This week on the program we speak with epidemiologist Dr Meru Sheel based at the Australian National University(link...
Meru Sheel – the girl who is a disease detective
Meru Sheel - the girl who is a disease detective, Fierce Girls, ABC Podcasts, 2022 Broadcast Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 1:00am If you saw an infectious disease outbreak, would you run far, far away? Dr Meru Sheel runs towards it. Meru grew up in India, where diseases...
The Omicron variant and vaccine inequality.
BBC Business Daily, BBC World Service. Could a more equitable global vaccine rollout have stopped the new variant? As the world waits for more information about just how contagious and dangerous the new Covid-19 variant is, we ask if the emergence of a variant like...
Talkback — COVID-19 modelling, forecasts and the move out of lockdown.
COVID modelling and the roadmap for opening up Life matters, ABC Radio National Models make predictions that help shape the policy approaches being taken towards fighting coronavirus and some states are planning a pathway out of lockdown based on these models. The...
Is It Time For Australia To Give Up On ‘Covid Zero’?
The Quicky, Mamamia Podcasts With no end in sight to Australia's current lockdowns and restrictions, it seems some of our political leaders are trying to shift our focus away from daily case numbers, and concentrate more on vaccination rates and what 'living with...
Patient Zero: Back From The Brink
ABC Radio National and BBC World Service Patient Zero: Back From The Brink A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea wakes up one day and is suddenly unable to stand up. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations are experiencing the same...
Time to get cracking: how to sell COVID-19 vaccinations to Australians
ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly Pressure is mounting for an urgent ad campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy, after it was revealed 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in clinics across Australia. So how can the government encourage vaccine...
Profile pieces
Profile pieces
Profile, Women in STEM on the lessons from an unprecedented year, Women’s Agenda (https://bit.ly/3z8A8ry), 2020 Profile, Canberra’s Dr Meru Sheel, an infectious diseases expert on the virtual frontline (https://bit.ly/3geYsPU), 2020 Profile, Johnson...