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.

Recent News

• WHO recommends R21/Matrix-M vaccine for malaria prevention in updated advice on immunization
  WHO news, October 2, 2023
• Building a Better Malaria Vaccine—NIAID Researchers Design a Paradigm-Busting Candidate
  NIAID Now blog post, September 27, 2023
• Resurgence of Malaria Transmission and Incidence after Withdrawal of Indoor Residual Spraying in the District of Koulikoro, Mali, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Seydou Doumbia and Fogarty trainees Mahamoudou Touré, Drissa Konaté, Mahamadou Diakité, and John Beier
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, September 6, 2023
• Association of severe malaria with cognitive and behavioural outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis and systematic review, co-authored by Fogarty Advisory Board member Chandy John
  Malaria Journal, August 3, 2023
• Malaria Screening Gets “Smart” with Machine Learning
  NLM Musings from the Mezzanine blog, April 19, 2023
• Human footprint is associated with shifts in the assemblages of major vector-borne diseases, co-authored by Fogarty grantees Caroline K. Glidden, Andrew J. MacDonald, and Erin A. Mordecai
  Nature Sustainability, March 13, 2023

Related Fogarty News and Information

• Angiogenic and angiostatic factors present in the saliva of malaria patients, co-authored by Fogarty Fellows Celia Lekpor and Felix Botchway
  Malaria Journal, July 14, 2022
  
• Hotspots and super-spreaders: Modelling fine-scale malaria parasite transmission using mosquito flight behaviour, co-authored by Fogarty grantee Robert McCann
  PLOS Pathogens, July 6, 2022
  
• Spatial distribution of incident pediatric Burkitt lymphoma in central and northern Malawi and association with malaria prevalence, co-authored by Fogarty Fellow and current grantee, Katherine Westmoreland, and NCI’s Center for Global Health Director Satish Gopal
  Pediatric Blood & Cancer, June 22, 2022
• Tracking antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda
  May / June 2022  Global Health Matters
• 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

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

• MESA Track database of research projects and institutions’ portfolios in malaria elimination and eradication.
  
• PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative
  
• Population Services International - Malaria Information
  
• RBM Partnership to End Malaria
• Together Against Malaria
• World Health Organization: Global Malaria Programme
• World malaria report 2022
  WHO, December 2022

Updated November 22, 2023