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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.
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 compared to...
IDIE's Associate Professor Meru Sheel, together with Associate Professor Anita Heywood (UNSW) discusses the alarming global resurgence of measles, highlighting a 20% increase in cases in 2023 due to declining vaccination rates and immunity gaps exacerbated by the...
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. ...