Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University are excited to be part of a new US$30 million global project to fight malaria.
Funded by the US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the five-year PMI INFORM project will take a data-centred approach to work with malaria affected countries to ensure they’re making the most effective and efficient use of resources to fight malaria and save lives.
The Perth-based Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) – headed by Professor Pete Gething, Kerry M Stokes AC Chair in Child Health and Professor of Epidemiology at Curtin University and The Kids – is part of the consortium set to run the project.
Headed by global health equity non-profit PATH, the consortium includes partners from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia and will work with local institutions across the world.
Professor Gething said it was vital to ensure countries battling malaria had the tools they needed in order to effectively fight the disease.
“With progress against malaria flatlining in recent years, we need now more than ever a commitment to the use of data and evidence to guide control efforts,” Professor Gething said.
“The INFORM consortium is bringing together a stellar cast of researchers and malaria control experts from across the world to do just that, and we’re excited about what the Malaria Atlas Project can bring to the project.”
For more details, see PATH’s media release here.