We believe that to defeat malaria we need to be able to measure it.

Approach

Quantifying the human toll of malaria cases and deaths each year is critical for understanding progress towards a malaria-free world. Mapping the landscape of malaria risk allows resources to be better targeted. Tracking malaria control efforts, and their impact, allow strategies to be reviewed and refined. But measuring malaria is not easy. Data can be sparse, incomplete, or unrepresentative, and have the potential to mislead as well as to inform. At MAP, we aim to combine the world’s malaria data with cutting-edge analytics so that we can generate the best possible information to help guide the fight against the disease.

Our Impact

Outputs
Mapping Risk
Estimating Burden
Evaluating Impact
Planning Commodities
Tracking Interventions
Strengthening Skills
Approach
Data
Collaboration
Analytics

Approach

Data
Data

We house the world’s largest malaria ...

Data

We house the world’s largest malaria database, assembling millions of data elements each year from field surveys, scientific studies, and routine surveillance systems, augmented by relevant environmental and demographic data from many sources.

Collaboration
Collaboration

MAP is a network of researchers from across the world ...

Collaboration

MAP is a network of researchers from across the world and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. We are epidemiologists, public health specialists, geographers, statisticians, and modelling experts. MAP members have also bring expertise in working within National Malaria Control Programs and endemic country research institutions.

Analytics
Analytics

We develop innovative analytical ...

Analytics

We develop innovative analytical approaches to making sense of complex malaria data. We are leaders in geospatial analysis, spatial and spatiotemporal statistical methods, machine learning, and computational disease models.

Engagement
Engagement

Everything MAP does is geared around ...

Engagement

Everything MAP does is geared around achieving impact. This only happens by engagement with those making the decisions that matter, including malaria policy makers, funders, and control program personnel.

Outputs

Mapping
Risk

We generate high-resolution maps of the malaria risk landscape at both ...

We generate high-resolution maps of the malaria risk landscape at both global and national levels – estimating infection prevalence, incidence rates, and mortality by pixel.

Estimating
Burden

We estimate annual malaria cases and deaths in endemic countries – ...

We estimate annual malaria cases and deaths in endemic countries – measuring the burden of the disease and the direction of trends towards international targets.

Evaluating
Impact

We use statistical models to infer the impact that current control measures ...

We use statistical models to infer the impact that current control measures are having on malaria transmission and burden – this can inform refinement of control strategies

Planning
Commodities

We provide tools for calculating malaria commodity needs, enabling countries ...

We provide tools for calculating malaria commodity needs, enabling countries to quantify the resources they need to protect their populations.

Tracking
Interventions

We track the coverage of malaria drugs, diagnostics, and vector control to ...

We track the coverage of malaria drugs, diagnostics, and vector control to understand which populations may be less well protected

Strengthening
Skills

We provide training, supervision, and mentorship to build skills in malaria ...

We provide training, supervision, and mentorship to build skills in malaria analytics

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