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0 Comments Published by naman July 7th, 2010 in Blogroll, Policy, Research, TreatmentMalaria articles on Karen Grepin’s blog – while only a few malaria dedicated blogs exist, some development and health blogs have a nice collection of posts including this one. Assessment of malaria elimination in Zanzibar (old news) – even with a balanced outlook will it guide future actions – or are those predetermined by who’s [...]
Malaria: Can science cripple development?
5 Comments Published by naman April 16th, 2010 in ResearchThe title is from a provocative article by Bart Knols (of MalariaWorld) on the modern malaria research establishment. I came across the piece through some related commentary at the terrific PloS Speaking of Medicine blog. His central thesis is a somewhat rhetorical question: “Is the bulk of today’s malaria research helping to control malaria?” As [...]
Communicating research: a case from vector molecular biology
7 Comments Published by naman November 12th, 2009 in Communication, Research, Vector controlThe mosquito vector, and by extension local ecology, drives malaria transmission. So understanding vector biology is important to malaria control. Classical studies of mosquito flight range, feeding preferences, and resting habits were crucial in the development and application of control strategies. Modern vector biology research, dominated by molecular studies, has produced new tools for monitoring [...]
New round of Gates grand challenge grant winners
0 Comments Published by naman October 25th, 2009 in ResearchI’ve covered the Gates grand challenge exploration grants before, but some of the winners from the most recent round may take the “this just sounds crazy” cake – chewing gum for a saliva based diagnostic, and chocolate compounds as potential treatments!
An example of a poor use of facility-based data to claim the anti-malaria impact of interventions: In 2007 the Millennium Village Project published early results related to agriculture, health, and economic development in their three research villages in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi. I am not commenting on their work as a whole but their malaria [...]
A research agenda towards malaria elimination
1 Comment Published by naman December 13th, 2008 in ResearchThat’s the title of a just released supplement of the Malaria Journal (open access). We know we will need new tools to make malaria elimination feasible (previously discussed here). Largely reviews, the articles do not containĀ groundbreaking ideas but are a good summary of opinions and issues surrounding topics ranging from malaria in pregnancy to [...]
Mosquito syringes and more funded by the Gates foundations grand challenges
0 Comments Published by naman October 28th, 2008 in ResearchThe Gates Foundation recently released the 104 funded “exploration” topics from an applicant pool of about 4,000 grants. It’s an interesting initiative (previously mentioned here) and my friend Andrew McKee has already posted a great summary of the grants directly or indirectly related to malaria. It’s interesting to note all the applications I came across [...]
The grand challenge of eradication – Gates Foundation is looking for new tools
4 Comments Published by naman September 12th, 2008 in ResearchAt the beginning of this month Gates announced the second round of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. The original Grand Challenges in Global Health sought to identify the most critical scientific challenges in global health and direct funding towards solving them. The Explorations Initiative, which accepted its first round of applications last spring, seeks to [...]
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