Raising the bar- Meru Sheel

Apr 4, 2024

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 became a ‘disease detective’.

Raised in India, epidemiologist Dr Meru Sheel witnessed the impact of diseases such as polio and tuberculosis first-hand. Today, Meru’s detective work analyses the patterns of infectious outbreaks like measles and COVID-19 and how vaccines can prevent these.

However, Meru found major barriers to disease prevention in resource-limited settings in the Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean. These barriers stem from global inequity in our health systems.

Stay tuned for a recording of her talk!

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