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Unlocking Potential: Dissemination of Findings from the Evaluation of the Electronic Immunisation Registry in Lao PDR
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. This was...
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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...
How backward contact tracing could help us get to COVID normal
by Michael Mackenzie on Life Matters Reverse or 'backwards' contact tracing is being pursued in an effort to squash clusters of coronavirus cases. But mystery cases are holding things back and this may be a problem for the easing of restrictions and border openings...
The ‘disease detective’ whose job it is to run towards disaster
Life Matters, ABC Radio Nationa Dr Meru Sheel is a field epidemiologist and population health expert at Australian National University, but she describes herself as a 'disease detective'. Dr Sheel became interested in helping prevent infectious diseases as a...
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