Meru Sheel

Datos Biográficos

ID5556374
NOMBREMeru Sheel
NOMBRESMeru
APELLIDOSheel
FIRMASHEEL M
AFILIACIONESAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0001-5453-070X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • FluTracking during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessDavid C Boettiger, David Boettiger et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2026

    FluTracking Australia is one of the largest online participatory surveillance systems worldwide. Here, we share our learnings from the experience of leading FluTracking during the COVID-19 pandemic. We theorise that awareness and utilisation of our learnings will lead to participatory surveillance having a greater influence upon future health policy, practice, and research. The FluTracking team came together in a series of meetings held between J…

  • Governing health through security in the Philippines

    Open AccessDelaram Akhavein, Lea Elora A Conda et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026Referencias: 54

    As global framings of health continue to expand their reach, the Philippines, like many other countries, must navigate the overlapping pressures of donors, international institutions, and domestic political agendas in setting priorities. One such framing is the framing of health as a security issue. This study examines how health security framing—how it is interpreted and operationalized—influences priority-setting in the Philippines. Drawing on …

  • Impact of measles vaccination strategies on vaccination rates in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessKiddus Yitbarek, Abela Mahimbo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

  • Immunisation health workforce capacity building in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessGemma Saravanos, Alvin Kuo Jing Teo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    The Immunization Agenda 2030 emphasises the need for a motivated, skilled and knowledgeable workforce equipped to plan, manage, implement and monitor immunisation programmes at all levels. The rapid introduction of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic highlighted the adaptability of the health workforce but also exposed gaps in professional development and learning. This practice paper describes the implementation of an immunisation training pro…

  • Vaccination and its social and behavioural drivers in children with disability in Fiji

    Open AccessIsrat Jahan, Unise Vakaloloma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Data on the vaccination of children with disabilities are limited across Pacific Island countries like Fiji. This study aimed to examine the vaccination status and measure the social and behavioural drivers influencing vaccination of children with disability in Fiji. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Suva-Nausori area, Rewa, Fiji among children with disabilities (eg, motor, vision, hearing, speech, intellectual, epi…

  • How health securitisation shapes health system priorities

    Open AccessDelaram Akhavein, Meru Sheel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Health securitisation – i.e., framing health issues as security issues or as threats– is growing in contemporary global health discourse. Given the power disparity between the actors who can frame a health issue or on whose behalf issues are framed and the actors who may experience the consequences of such framing, it is crucial to understand how ‘health security’ framing impacts health system prioritisation. We conducted a realist synthesis on h…

  • "Fear of the unknown"

    Open AccessRosalie Power, Unise Vakaloloma et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Vaccinating children with disability in low- and middle-income countries, such as Fiji, is a key priority for equity. This study aimed to understand the social and behavioral drivers of vaccine uptake among children with disability in Fiji, from the perspectives of health, disability, and community stakeholders. Five qualitative focus groups were conducted with 22 stakeholders, including healthcare workers, disability service providers and advoca…

  • Service disruptions, trauma and burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic among healthcare providers delivering immunisation and maternal and child health services in Indonesia

    Open AccessMadeleine Randell, Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in extreme strain on health systems including the health workforce, essential health services and vaccination coverage. We examined disruptions to immunisation and maternal and child health (MCH) services, concerns of personal well-being and delivery of healthcare during the pandemic as well as factors associated with self-reported trauma or burnout among healthcare providers (HCPs). METHODS: In March-Ap…

  • Covid-19 contact tracing and quarantine policies in the Indo-Pacific Region

    Open AccessMd Saiful Islam, Friedrich Vogt et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Contact tracing and quarantine are valuable public health tools to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and control the epidemic. Many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) adopted global contact tracing and quarantine guidelines but were unable to contextualise the guidance into policies and practices that were relevant to their setting. Therefore, we examine contact tracing policies and practices in the Indo-Pacific region and the need to d…

  • Measuring what matters

    Open AccessCyra Patel, Ginny M Sargent et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Increasing countries’ access to data can improve immunisation coverage through evidence-based decision-making. However, data collection and reporting is resource-intensive, so needs to be pragmatic, especially in low-and-middle-income countries. We aimed to identify which indicators are most important for measuring, and improving, national immunisation performance in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). We conducted an expert elicitation study, askin…

  • Information seeking behaviors of individuals impacted by Covid-19 international travel restrictions

    Open AccessPippa McDermid, Phillipa McDermid et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2023

    Access to accurate information during a crisis is essential. However, while the amount of information circulating during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased exponentially, finding trustworthy resources has been difficult for many, including those affected by international travel restrictions. In this study, we examined the information-seeking behaviors of individuals seeking to travel internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also explored…

  • Expert perspectives on priorities for supporting health security in the Pacific region through health systems strengthening

    Open AccessNicole Rendell, Meru Sheel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has reiterated the interdependence of health security and health systems, and the need for resilient health systems to prevent large-scale impacts of infectious disease outbreaks and other acute public health events. Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic has led to discussions on how to “build back better”, making it important to identify lessons to strengthen health systems and prevent future shocks from health security th…

  • Modelling Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough infections in highly vaccinated Israel—The effects of waning immunity and third vaccination dose

    Open AccessAnyin Feng, Uri Obolski et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    In August 2021, a major wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant erupted in the highly vaccinated population of Israel. The transmission advantage of the Delta variant enabled it to replace the Alpha variant in approximately two months. The outbreak led to an unexpectedly large proportion of breakthrough infections (BTI)–a phenomenon that received worldwide attention. Most of the Israeli population, especially those aged 60+, received their second do…

  • Differential diagnosis of Covid-19 and influenza

    Open AccessFarrokh Alemi, Jee Vang et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    This study uses two existing data sources to examine how patients’ symptoms can be used to differentiate COVID-19 from other respiratory diseases. One dataset consisted of 839,288 laboratory-confirmed, symptomatic, COVID-19 positive cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from March 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020. The second dataset provided the controls and included 1,814 laboratory-confirmed influenza positive, sy…

  • Development of the Covid-19 Real-Time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER), Australia

    Open AccessEmma Field, Amalie Dyda et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Accurate and current information has been highlighted across the globe as a critical requirement for the COVID-19 pandemic response. To address this need, many interactive dashboards providing a range of different information about COVID-19 have been developed. A similar tool in Australia containing current information about COVID-19 could assist general practitioners and public health responders in their pandemic response efforts. The COVID-19 R…

  • Assessing the impact of polio supplementary immunisation activities on routine immunisation and health systems

    Open AccessAmy Vassallo, Kimberly Dunbar et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021