topnaman | Malaria blog

NGrams are a neat Google feature which let’s you see the percentage of books in a year which mention a term of interest. Results for malaria in all the English language works they have cataloged between 1800 and 2008: Notice the major peaks corresponding to the ‘discovery’ period (1890-1920) and war/eradication era (1940-1960) for malaria [...]

Dr Jack Chow, a former WHO official with a colorful background including management consulting and investment banking, takes a bird’s eye view of the World Health Organization in Foreign Policy magazine. WHO cannot become complacent (see here) and needs to pursue serious reforms but my agreement with Dr Chow ends there. First, the “product” of [...]

Probably the largest, longest running, drug efficacy monitoring effort in the malaria world yet little appreciated and recognized. I hope our analysis and publication of thirty years of data (sorry, not open access – email me for the PDF) helps amend that. And something I do not say often enough: I am so grateful for [...]

Good sentences: Malaria can not be won by fighting from the meeting room. It is won by fighting in the frontline where decision, appropriate for the situation, is implemented with decisiveness. The key to malaria elimination is the frontline worker and its supervisor… Seeing the result of his work will motivate the front line workers [...]