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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 alarming symptoms.
A disease that was eradicated from this region is back — and it appears to be spreading.
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...
An alliance of Australia’s leading health and development institutions has applauded the Australian Government’s $620 million boost for health systems in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. This alliance includes the Australia Council for International Development...
As part of my second summer in the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program, I joined the Infectious Diseases, Immunizations, and Emergencies (IDIE) research group based at the Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, Australia as a student researcher....