Wide breadth of PATH’s malaria work on display at ASTMH

From November 18 to 22, the global health and tropical medicine communities will convene in National Harbor, Maryland, at the 2026 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting for several days of learning, collaboration, and discussion.

As always, the agenda includes some of the latest research and learnings from PATH’s portfolio of malaria projects, with a wide breadth of our work on display representing a variety of approaches to reducing the burden of malaria and accelerating elimination efforts. And this year, our abstracts and symposia provide clear examples of how PATH is putting its 2026–2030 Malaria Strategy to practice.

From collaborating with national leadership to enhance technical expertise; to increasing access, quality, and demand for existing interventions; to strengthening data systems and data-driven decision-making, these pillars of PATH’s strategy—also recognized globally as essential to driving malaria transmission down to zero—will all be present in PATH’s presentations at ASTMH.

At the heart of each approach is a drive to advance integrated systems and delivery. Recognizing that the integration of methods, platforms, and interventions within existing health system structures has been a point of emphasis across the global health community, a PATH-organized symposium, “Integrated, country-led approaches to achieving sustained progress against malaria,” will see successful examples of integration shared by USG and Ministry of Health staff from Cameroon, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Elsewhere at the conference, here’s how PATH’s presence at ASTMH links to our Malaria Strategy.

Collaboration with national leadership to enhance technical expertise

A poster presentation describing how a capacity assessment conducted by PATH in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) identified strengths, bottlenecks, and priority investments for National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) stewardship will be on display. This work is one example of how PATH applies its expertise to strengthen technical proficiency in the countries we partner with.

Increasing access, quality, and demand for existing interventions

Another batch of presentations will demonstrate the many ways PATH and its partners assess the quality of malaria interventions, with the goal of ultimately strengthening them. PATH Senior Malaria Technical Advisor Elvis Oyugi will deliver an oral presentation sharing the results of a study that sought to find how much hands-on mentorship addressed the knowledge and skill gaps of clinicians managing severe malaria in Western Kenya. Other presentations highlighting PATH efforts to increase access, quality, and demand for existing interventions include posters that describe findings from:

Strengthening data systems and data-driven decision-making

Presentations describing PATH's work in improving and expanding data systems in the countries we partner with also show how this encapsulates PATH hallmarks like strengthening model-driven decision-making and finding the most cost-effective ways to deliver impact. In the DRC, where geographic barriers are a major constraint to timely access to primary healthcare and malaria control services, PATH conducted a national-level geospatial accessibility analysis to characterize the access to services. A poster presentation will show how PATH identified populations living beyond travel times considered acceptable for reaching treatment services and developed evidence-based estimates for the expansion of community care sites and the placement of community health workers. Other presentations showcasing PATH’s work with national programs to strengthen data systems include posters that describe findings from: