Holly Seale

Biographic Data

ID173377
NAMEHolly Seale
GIVEN NAMESHolly
FAMILY NAMESeale
SIGNATURESEALE H
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-1877-5395
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A Codesigned Approach to Develop Tailored Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies in Bangladesh

    Open AccessAbdullah Al‐Masud, Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

  • Ethical Conduct of Research with Migrants and Refugees

    Open AccessRajshree Thapa, Davoud Pourmarzi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2026

    There is increasing consensus across communities, health and social care practitioners and researchers in Australia of the need for specific ethical guidelines for research with migrants and refugees. We aim to identify existing documents providing ethics guidance for research with people from migrant and refugee communities, to appraise their quality, synthesise recommendations and identify gaps where additional guidance is required. This system…

  • Facemask and respirator use for bushfire smoke protection

    Open AccessAbrar Ahmad Chughtai, Elizabeth Kpozehouen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2026

    BACKGROUND: As climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of bushfires, exposure to bushfire smoke is emerging as a significant public health concern, associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, including exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory infections. OBJECTIVE: This study examined policies related to the use of masks and respirators as protective measures again…

  • Liminal language managers and advocates

    Open AccessDanielle H Heinrichs, Holly Seale et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Language Planning2026

    Australia is one of the most heat-vulnerable and multicultural countries in the world. It is vital that diverse communities receive information about heat in accessible language. Local councils play an important role in facilitating this. It is unknown how local councils cater for their diverse communities to provide multilingual communication, considering scattergun heat policies. This research aims to understand how local governments plan and m…

  • Understanding the drivers of poor infection prevention control (IPC) practices in Kenyan health facilities

    Open AccessH Brown, Aloyce Odhiambo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Improving IPC practices in health facilities is a major concern for the global health community. This paper combines insights from rapid ethnographic research and epidemiological measures of IPC adherence undertaken in four health facilities of different sizes in western Kenya between November 2022 and January 2023. At the time of our research, the Covid-19 pandemic was a WHO-defined Public Health Emergency of International Concern, although the …

  • RE-AIM evaluation of a community-based vaccine education and communication program to improve human papillomavirus vaccine uptake in Tonga

    Open AccessYasmin Mohamed, Isabella Overmars et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    There is a global need for effective strategies to improve acceptance and uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, particularly in the Pacific where cervical screening and treatment options are limited. While the Pacific Island nation of Tonga has high routine childhood vaccine coverage, HPV vaccine uptake has remained low since its introduction in 2022. To improve vaccine acceptance and uptake, recent evidence supports the use of commun…

  • Developing Community‐Informed Communication Resources to Improve Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake in Tonga

    Open AccessYasmin Mohamed, Emma Luey et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    INTRODUCTION: Despite high coverage of routine childhood vaccines, uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the Pacific Island nation of Tonga has been slow. Culturally appropriate communication resources on the importance, safety, and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine are critical to support acceptance and uptake. To develop these resources, it is important to understand what people want to know. We aimed to explore HPV vaccine informa…

  • Independent and joint associations of sex and birth order with non‐national immunization program vaccine coverage among Chinese children

    Open AccessHongyu Cai, Yaguan Zhou et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    Birth order of children was independently associated with non-NIP vaccines coverage, whereas sex showed no significant. However, sex and birth order were jointly associated with receipt of non-NIP vaccines, with later born children and girls having significantly lower coverage than first-born boys. In the context of the three-child policy in China, interventions to promote non-NIP vaccine equity should consider children's sex and birth order

  • Patient Safety Events Among People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Kathryn Joseph et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025

    Patient safety events in cancer care occur frequently among patients from ethnic minority backgrounds. Unsafe cancer care for this population is associated with inadequate use of interpreters, lack of shared understanding and expectations of care processes linked to cultural and linguistic barriers. Approaches to enhance engagement are required

  • Training health workers and community influencers to be Vaccine Champions

    Open AccessJessica Kaufman, Isabella Overmars et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: Increasing trust and confidence in vaccines is a global priority, as countries have grappled with delivering COVID-19 vaccines, maintaining routine childhood vaccination rates and introducing new vaccines. Community-based vaccine promotion interventions are commonly implemented, but effectiveness evidence is limited. In 2022, supported by the Australian Government and in partnership with Fiji's Ministry of Health and UNICEF, we code…

  • Implementation pilot study of community self-testing for Covid-19 among employees of manufacturing industries and their household members in 2022 to 2023

    Open AccessHuan Keat Chan, Elena Marbán-Castro et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    COVID-19 self-testing is essential for enabling individuals to self-care, screen themselves and, if positive, isolate themselves. Since 2021, COVID-19 self-tests have been extensively used in high-income countries, however, their programmatic implementation in low- and middle-income countries has been delayed. An implementation pilot, mixed-methods study, was conducted in four industrial manufacturing companies, in Kedah State between November 20…

  • Creating safer cancer care with ethnic minority patients

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Bronwyn Newman et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: Effective consumer engagement practices can enhance patient safety. This is important for consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds who are exposed to increased risk of patient safety events. Using the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model, this study explored staff experiences of creating opportunities for engagement with consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds to contribute to their cancer care safety. METHOD…

  • 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…

  • Credibility of vaccine-related content on Twitter during Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSamira Yousefinaghani, Rozita Dara et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    During national COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, people continuously engaged on Twitter to receive updates on the latest public health information, and to discuss and share their experiences. During this time, the spread of misinformation was widespread, which threatened the uptake of vaccines. It is therefore critical to understand the reasons behind vaccine misinformation and strategies to mitigate it. The current research aimed to understand the co…

  • ‘Getting the vaccine makes me a champion of it’

    Open AccessJoshua Karras, Mia Harrison et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2023

    OBJECTIVES: Peer-to-peer communication approaches have been previously described as the 'power of personal referral'. Rather than relying on official channels of information, peer-to-peer communication may have a role in supporting changes in understanding and possibly behaviours. However, in emergency or pandemic situations, there is currently limited understanding of whether community members feel comfortable speaking about their vaccine experi…

  • Exploring the use of masks for protection against the effects of wildfire smoke among people with preexisting respiratory conditions

    Open AccessHolly Seale, Mallory Trent et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Whilst COVID-19 has changed the nature of community mask use over the last couple of years, there is no guarantee that this event will influence an individual's mask behavior during other events like bushfires. Instead, we must create social support processes for early and appropriate mask use, including the use of air quality monitoring

  • Perceptions of Covid-19 Vaccines

    Open AccessDaniel Storer, Lise Lafferty et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2023

    COVID-19 vaccination is particularly challenging among populations who have experienced discrimination in healthcare settings. This paper presents qualitative findings from in-depth interviews about COVID-19 vaccination conducted in Australia between October 2020 and November 2021. Data from four different studies are presented; each population has unique experiences of discrimination within the healthcare system: Aboriginal people; people who in…

  • Trust in government, intention to vaccinate and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy

    Open AccessMallory Trent, Holly Seale et al.ARTICLEVaccine2022

    BACKGROUND: There is widespread hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors of willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 in five cities with varying COVID-19 incidence in the US, UK, and Australia. DESIGN: Online, cross-sectional survey of adults from Dynata's research panel in July-September 2020. PARTICIPANTS, SETTING: Adults aged 18 and over in Sydney, Melbourne, Lo…

  • The role of community leaders and other information intermediaries during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessHolly Seale, Ben Harris-Roxa et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022

    Community and religious leaders and other natural leaders from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds have been postulated as a gateway into communities. They act as information intermediaries that enable public health messages to reach individuals. However, there are currently limitations regarding our understanding of these information intermediaries’ regarding their capacity, role, and reach. In-depth interviews were undertak…

  • Exploring factors influencing the compliance of patients and family carers with infection prevention and control recommendations across Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Korea

    Open AccessJi Yeon Park, Jerico Franciscus Pardosi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Poor compliance with infection prevention and control (IPC) measures has been a longstanding issue globally. To date, healthcare workers (HCWs) have been the primary target for policy and strategy revisions. Recent studies exploring the contributing factors to the spread of COVID-19 across countries in Asia have suggested that the scope of focus should be extended to family carers who provide patient care activities. This study aimed …

  • The Pendulum Has Swung

    Open AccessHolly Seale, Kathleen McFadden et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Rather than concentrating primarily on children and adolescents, there has been a shift in the discourse around immunisation to encompass a whole-of-life approach. This study aimed to explore key informant's and stakeholder's perceptions of factors impacting provision of immunisation programs for Australian adults and to identify strategies to promote acceptance and uptake. Semi-structured telephone interviews were undertaken with people involved…

  • Examining pulmonary TB patient management and healthcare workers exposures in two public tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh

    Open AccessMd Saiful Islam, Sayera Banu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Implementation of tuberculosis (TB) infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines in public tertiary care general hospitals remain challenging due to limited evidence of pulmonary TB (PTB) patients’ duration of hospital stay and management. To fill this evidence gap, this study examined adult PTB patient management, healthcare workers’ (HCWs) exposures and IPC practices in two public tertiary care hospitals in Bangladesh.Between December 2017…

  • Assessing the environment for engagement in health services

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Bronwyn Newman et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

    INTRODUCTION: Although it is widely accepted that the physical environment can impact health quality and care outcomes, its impact on consumer engagement with health services has not been examined. Currently, no tools exist that assess the opportunities for consumer engagement offered within the physical environment. We aimed to develop and validate an environmental audit tool to assist health services and researchers to assess the extent to whic…

  • Covid-19 Vaccine Misperceptions in a Community Sample of Adults Aged 18–49 Years in Australia

    Open AccessKristen Pickles, Tessa Copp et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Central to a successful population vaccination program is high uptake of vaccines. However, COVID-19 vaccine uptake may be impeded by beliefs based on misinformation. We sought to understand the prevalence and nature of misbeliefs about COVID-19 vaccines, and identify associated factors, shortly after commencement of Australia's national vaccine rollout. A cross-sectional survey was administered to unvaccinated young adults (n = 2050) in Australi…

  • Speaking Covid-19

    Open AccessHolly Seale, Ben Harris-Roxa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Alliances must be set up that can be activated in the future to reduce issues around resource development, translation, and dissemination of messages to minimise gaps in the response. Financial assistance must be provided in a timely way to community organisations to support the development and dissemination of culturally appropriate communication materials