Holly Seale BSc, MPH, PhD

Dr. Holly Seale is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the Program Co-Director of the Master of Infectious Diseases Intelligence course, and the Chair of the UNSW Human Research Ethics Committee. Holly leads a program of research that is focused on the sociological aspects of infectious diseases and infection prevention. Specifically, her research encompasses the individual, societal and organisational factors that influence compliance with infection prevention strategies that ultimately are employed to develop approaches/interventions to improve uptake. Her research spans pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical prevention strategies, includes qualitative and quantitative research approaches and consumers such as hospital/community healthcare workers, special at-risk groups (people with underlying illness, migrants/refugees), students and the general public.