Malaria news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease causing fever, chills and flu-like illness that can be fatal. Despite an increased focus on malaria, it still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most of them children in Africa. Poor quality antimalarial drugs, which lead to drug resistance and inadequate treatment, are also a growing concern, posing an urgent threat to vulnerable populations.

Fogarty has supported a wide range of efforts to combat malaria, including the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, an international effort to identify and address malaria research priorities. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, a joint NIH - National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative, funds malaria-related projects in Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Belize and more. Through the Global Infectious Disease program, Fogarty has supported research training efforts that advance scientific discoveries, while developing local malaria research capacity in places where it's needed most.

Fogarty's epidemiology division studies malaria transmission patterns, drug resistance and other related topics, modeling malaria's prevalence and impact.

Related Fogarty News and Information

Spatio-temporal modelling of malaria mortality in India from 2004 to 2013 from the Million Death Study
co-authored by Fogarty grantee Dr. Prabhat Jha
Malaria Journal, March 17, 2022
Blood-feeding patterns of Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Malawi: implications for malaria transmission and effectiveness of LLIN interventions
co-authored by Fogarty grantees Dr. Don Mathanga and Dr. Miriam Laufer
Malaria Journal, March 3, 2022
Scientists in Tanzania show bacterial zoonoses, not malaria, often the cause of febrile diseases
Nov / Dec 2020 Global Health Matters
Profile: Fogarty Fellow Jillian Armstrong studies novel malaria detection device in Cameroon
Jan / Feb 2020 Global Health Matters
Poor quality drugs for treating malaria, pneumonia, hypertension and other diseases pose “public health emergency,” study says
Mar / Apr 2019 Global Health Matters
Scientists in Tanzania show bacterial zoonoses, not malaria, often the cause of febrile diseases
Nov / Dec 2020 Global Health Matters
Profile: Fogarty Fellow Jillian Armstrong studies novel malaria detection device in Cameroon
Jan / Feb 2020 Global Health Matters
Poor quality drugs for treating malaria, pneumonia, hypertension and other diseases pose “public health emergency,” study says
Mar / Apr 2019 Global Health Matters
Chinese researchers discovered effectiveness of artemisinin against malaria
Sep / Oct 2015 Global Health Matters
Global pandemic of fake medicines poses urgent risk, scientists say
May / Jun 2015 Global Health Matters

Related publications: The Global Pandemic of Falsified Medicines: Laboratory and Field Innovations and Policy Perspectives
June 2015 supplement to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, published online April 20, 2015

Q and A with world-renowned malaria research expert Dr Chris Plowe
May / Jun 2015 Global Health Matters
Fogarty Global Infectious Diseases grantee news:
An American doctor may have solved a deadly mystery about malaria
PRI's The World, May 5, 2015
Fogarty funding spurs global health innovations, including a project to develop low-cost malaria diagnostics in Zambia
Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
Fogarty funds ecology, genetics studies of malaria in Ghana
Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria: Research Challenges, Opportunities, and Public Health Implications
Meeting report on Fogarty and NIAID conference on artemisinin-resistant malaria
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, August 2012
Fogarty study shows poor quality and fake malaria drugs pose threat
May / Jun 2012 Global Health Matters

NIH study shows poor quality malaria drugs pose threat, Drug resistance a growing concern in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
NIH News, May 21, 2012

Call to action on drug-resistant malaria
Fogarty/NIH News, September 22, 2011

NIH News and Resources

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Malaria Topic Page
National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s MedlinePlus on Malaria

Other US Government Resources

U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI)

U.S. President's Malaria Initiative's Annual Report to Congress

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Malaria
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Malaria

Other Online Resources

World malaria report 2021
WHO, December 2021

Updated April 29, 2022