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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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IDIE at Global Health Security Conference
Reflections from Ghenu Khillo, PhD student at IDIE I am honoured to be nominated as a student ambassador for the Global Health Security Conference 2024, held at the International Convention Centre, Sydney. This event was an insightful and remarkable platform to...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease Outbreaks Among Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review
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...
From injuries to infectious diseases, what are the health risks in the aftermath of PNG’s landslide?
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,...
“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...
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...
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