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SEEC project

Strengthening Emergency Engagement & Communication for Multicultural Communities

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About us

The SEEC project aims to explore ways to enhance the capacity of community and religious leaders and other stakeholders who support people from multicultural communities, to assist their respective communities during health crises events and other emergencies. Working closely with the multicultural sector, we aim to develop and evaluate a new training package. Our project has been funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Overall aims

To enhance the role of information intermediaries during crisis periods through the development and validation of a strategy and training package.

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Specific aims

  1. To understand the factors that impact the communication and engagement efforts of information intermediaries during crisis periods​
  2. To co-design the communication strategy and training package (intervention) aimed at enhancing the role of information intermediaries during crisis periods ​
  3. Test the feasibility of the intervention in two areas: acceptability and efficacy

Meet the team

The SEEC Project team has approximately 14 investigators, one professional staff and one PhD candidate. See below for links to more information about the team.

Associate Professor Holly Seale
Associate Professor

Principal Investigator,ÌýUNSW

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Senior Lecturer (Integrated Care) Ben Harris-Roxas
Senior Lecturer (Integrated Care)

Co-Investigator,ÌýUNSW

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Lecturer in Health data Science Katrina Blazek
Lecturer in Health data Science

Co-Investigator, UNSW

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Associate Professor

Co-Investigator, University of Wollongong

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Co-Investigator, Griffith University

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Lecturer

Co-Investigator, Griffith University

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Professor

Co-Investigator, Griffith University

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Adjunct Fellow

Co-Investigator, South Western Sydney Local Health District &ÌýUniversity of Technology Sydney

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Vicky Jacobson
State-wide coordinator

Co-Investigator,ÌýRefugee Health Network Queensland

Nadia Chaves
General and infectious diseases specialist

Co-Investigator,ÌýAlfred Health & Cohealth

Lisa Woodland

Co-Investigator,ÌýNSW Multicultural Health Service SESLD

Mitchell Smith
Public health physician

Co-Investigator,ÌýNSW Refugee Health Service, SWSLHDÌý

Dipti Zachariah
Public health professional

Co-Investigator, Multicultural Health Services, WSLHDÌý

Kirsten McCaffery
Professor

Co-Investigator,ÌýUniversity of Sydney

Jim Macnamara
Distinguished Professor

Co-Investigator,ÌýUniversity of Technology SydneyÌý

Medha Sengupta
PhD Candidate

UNSW

Pippa McDermid Headshot
Project Officer

UNSW

Major funders

NHMRC – Ideas Grant

The expected outcomes are:

  • innovative and creative research
  • funding of researchers at all career stages
  • funding any area of health and medical research from discovery to implementation.