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Malaria

We envision a world where country leaders and their partners have the tools, evidence, financial capacity, human resources, and political will to control, eliminate, and eventually eradicate malaria.

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Dr. Caroline Phiri-Chibawe is a trained medical doctor with more than two decades of public health experience. Today, she continues to advance malaria elimination efforts. Photo: PATH/Lisa Atfield.
Our work in numbers
300+
staff across the world
40
countries with active projects
25+
projects

What we do

We focus on developing, introducing, and evaluating new tools and approaches; optimizing the delivery of current tools and approaches; improving data use through enhanced measurement tools, metrics, and information systems; and strengthening endemic country expertise to create sustainable systems.

Key focus areas
We work across the following cross-cutting areas:
Health system resilience

We partner with ministries of health in malaria-endemic countries to support the development of resilient health systems by generating evidence to inform policy, strengthening the capacity of community health workers, and increasing coverage of proven health interventions–against malaria and other diseases.

Digital and data

We support health ministries in digital transformation—developing skills, systems, and governance—for timely and quality use of data technologies to improve decision-making across efforts to end malaria.

Epidemic and pandemic preparedness

Our investments in malaria have been leveraged to effectively to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging global health threats, including integrating multiple sources of data, applying mathematical modeling, and expanding surveillance and laboratory capacities.

Innovation and access

We work across the innovation and access pipeline—from generating new malaria tools to expanding access to current ones, through the analysis of market dynamics and policy windows.

Technical capabilities

Malaria vaccine development & introduction

Vector control

Diagnostics

Market access to existing & new tools

Research & evaluation

Surveillance & digital platforms

Routine data collection & reporting, data quality assessments, data use training & integration

Data-driven analytics & mathematical modeling

Policy formulation & operational planning

Management, leadership & capacity strengthening at all levels of the health system

Community case management & workforce training

Where we work

We have active malaria projects in more than 40 countries across 3 continents:

Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Asia-Pacific: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Americas: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Peru.

PATH Malaria Events

Upcoming webinar

What’s next with malaria vaccines? Opportunities and challenges for the next 5 years

Thursday, March 23
7:00am PT | 10:00am ET | 2:00pm GMT | 4pm CAT | 9:00pm ICT

The first malaria vaccine to be recommended and prequalified by WHO is moving into broader implementation, while a leading malaria vaccine candidate is in Phase 3 evaluation. Other immunization approaches, including monoclonal antibodies and mRNA vaccines, are in development. This webinar will explore key challenges to vaccine development and access—financial, scientific, and delivery—with perspectives offered by experts in their respective fields.

The webinar will be moderated by John Bawa, Africa Team Lead, Vaccine Implementation at PATH and will feature the following speakers: Ashley Birkett, PhD, Global Head of Malaria Vaccines & Biologics at PATH, Hema Srinivasan, Chief Access Officer at MedAccess, and Jane Grant, MSc, Research Assistant at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

There will be a Q&A session at the end of the webinar. The webinar will be recorded and available to those who register.

Recordings from our past webinars are available here.

Register here

Portfolio Leadership

  1. Ashley Birkett

    Global Head, Malaria Vaccines and Biologics, Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access

  2. Gonzalo Domingo

    Scientific Director and Lead of Malaria Diagnostics

  3. Ray Cummings

    Director, Market Dynamics

  4. Taruni Khurana

    Deputy Director, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

  5. Carla Botting

    Deputy Director, Malaria Vaccines and Biologics, Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access

  6. Ed Hedvall

    Program Director of Management and Administration, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

  7. Ayano Ogawa

    Director of Policy and External Engagement, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Project Leadership

  1. Adam Bennett

    Senior Scientific Advisor, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

  2. Hana Bilak

    Project Director, Malaria Emergency Operations Centers

  3. Sarah Burnett

    Project Director, VectorLink

  4. Yakou Dieye

    West Africa Malaria Regional Director, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

  5. Mandy Dube

    Project Director, Zambia Digital Community Health

  6. Kim Lindblade

    Technical Director, PMI Insights

  7. Megan Littrell

    Project Director, PMI Insights and ATSB

  8. John Miller

    Project Director, MACEPA

  9. Caroline Phiri-Chibawe

    Chief of Party, PAMO Plus

  10. Arantxa Roca Feltrer

    Regional Malaria Director, MACEPA

  11. Hannah Slater

    Research Scientist, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases

  12. Joe Wagman

    Project Director, New Nets

Resources
Factsheet

A two-page summary describing who we are, where we work, and what we do.

Available here
Publications

Peer-reviewed publications from PATH Malaria researchers and scientists in collaboration with external partners

Available here
18 Articles
18 Articles
18 Articles
  1. 8 Malaria
    December 15, 2022

    PATH Malaria: 2022 in photos

    12 images that capture our malaria elimination efforts from the past year.
  2. Senegal street scene
    October 24, 2022

    20+ years advancing health equity in Senegal

    Celebrating more than two decades of impactful partnership between PATH and the Ministry of Health.
  3. Professor Evelyn Ansah BD
    June 14, 2022

    Q&A with Professor Evelyn Ansah, co-chair of the Research Prioritization Evaluation Committee

    The President's Malaria Initiative Insights Project recently identified new research and evaluation topics. Professor Ansah reflects on the committee's role in the prioritization process.
  4. A nurse holds 7-month-old Beverly Wakasa while speaking to her mother, Sylvia Kadesa, about the malaria vaccine at the Malava County Hospital Child Welfare Clinic in Kakamega, Kenya. Photo: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
    May 6, 2022

    The world’s first malaria vaccine and beyond

    Ashley Birkett, PhD, head of PATH’s Malaria Vaccine Initiative, talks about next steps for RTS,S and work to develop the next generation of malaria vaccines and biologics.
  5. Marie-Reine Rutagwera, Strategic Information Advisor, PAMO Plus Photo: PATH/Todd Jennings.
    April 21, 2022

    Eight experts on what inspires them to fight malaria

    PATH malaria experts weigh in on what it will take to accelerate elimination—and what excites them about their work.
  6. Changara District, Mozambique, in October 2021 during durability monitoring data collection. Durability monitoring measures the physical condition and effectiveness of the chemicals on bed nets over time. Photo: PATH/Molly Robertson.
    December 27, 2021

    Promising new tools against malaria

    Mosquito nets treated with new ingredients show greater reductions in malaria than standard insecticide-treated nets.
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