Travel to malaria-endemic areas: using digital geo-location to assess potential exposure risks and health behaviours (Publications)
and Tanzania, each presenting varying malaria risks. The extent to which travellers enter high-risk malaria-endemic areas in destinations with heterogeneous malaria risk remains unclear. We used geo-location [...] heterogeneous malaria risk (Brazil, India, Peru, Thailand), and (ii) compare mosquito bite prevention behaviours between these destinations and Tanzania, considered entirely high-risk for malaria. METHODS: [...] health and geo-location data were collected using a smartphone...
WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination (Page)
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training activities on malaria epidemiology, control and elimination The Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016– 2030 calls for, among others, strengthening the health workforce and malaria expert base. Under [...] and Malaria, Swiss National Science Foundation , Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation , PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative , Clinton Health Access Initiative , United States President's Malaria Initiative [...] Training for Malaria Control and Elimination Following years...
Malaria in Focus: From Research to Global Action | Swiss TPH Symposium (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/about/events/malaria-symposium-2025
control Malaria epidemiology and implementation research Global partnerships, policies and capacity strengthening Swiss TPH’s Commitment to Global Malaria Efforts Swiss TPH is a leader in global malaria control [...] Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination and a member of the Swiss Malaria Group, Swiss TPH plays a vital role in advancing innovative strategies for malaria elimination. Programme Thursday [...] Nicolas Brancucci Unit Head, Malaria Host Interactions, Swiss TPH...
Evaluation of the Papua New Guinea National Malaria Control Program, 2018-2020 (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/evaluation-of-the-papua-new-guinea-national-malaria-control-program-2018-2020
information on malaria control intervention coverage, prevalence of malaria infection, and on different aspects of the changing malaria epidemiology in PNG, including on the local transmission of malaria in the [...] distinct malaria burden amenable to different combinations of interventions) Activity 2: School Malaria Survey (assessing malaria prevalence in school aged schildren) Activity 3: National Malaria Indicator [...] considered the country with the highest malaria transmission outside of...
Modeling support for BMGF Malaria Portfolio Analysis (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/modeling-support-for-bmgf-malaria-portfolio-analysis
in the malaria product portfolio of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and partners. This model-based evidence combined with costs and economic analysis supports strategic decisions for malaria.
Mathematical models to define new malaria immunotherapies and interventions to meet public health needs (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/mathematical-models-to-define-new-malaria-immunotherapies-and-interventions-to-meet-public-health-needs
progress in fighting malaria, there remains a need for new antimalarial interventions to protect children and other vulnerable populations who experience the highest burden of malaria. Developing new in [...] from academia, product development partners, and representatives from malaria-endemic countries. Our focus is on next-generation malaria vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and new chemoprevention antimalarials
Towards Elimination of Malaria in Tanzania (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/towards-elimination-of-malaria-in-tanzania
Malaria and poverty entertain a close relationship through historical times. Past studies have abundantly documented the benefits of malaria control on economic development and human well-being, and as [...] of malaria across the country declined, the heterogeneity in transmission greatly increased. At present, some areas in Tanzania remain with a very high transmission and hence with a high malaria burden [...] and risk stratification followed by decentralized malaria control planning has...
