How we help fight against malaria

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.

Our Impact

What We Do

MAP is dedicated to driving positive impact in malaria policy, funding decisions, scientific research and capacity strengthening. We prioritize research excellence in generating analytical insights that accelerate progress towards malaria eradication.

Our pioneering global map of Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity has served as a crucial resource for global malaria strategy and policy formulation, national program implementation, and monitoring efforts. For years, we have maintained the largest and most comprehensive malaria data repository which provides core malaria analytics such as malaria burden and intervention coverage and cause-specific mortality estimation, to World Health Organization’s annual World Malaria Report. MAP’s analytical insights also guide decisions on RTSS vaccine prioritisation, the Global Fund’s allocation and replenishment decisions across diseases and countries, and inform progress, projections, and advocacy for investment cases. We are also key contributors to the Institute of Health Metrics’ Global Burden of Disease study.

Our estimates and model outputs are used by a range of downstream stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations, funding and implementing partners, modeling groups and research organizations. Notable examples include contributions to the World Bank’s global database, ALMA’s scorecard, Malaria No More Commonwealth Dashboard and the President’s Malaria Initiative annual performance monitoring and reporting to congress

MAP’s role in creating robust evidence for national malaria policy and decision-making is further strengthened by presence on the African continent, where we provide tailored, timely support to 40 malaria-endemic countries. This support is closely integrated with efforts to strengthen research leadership in geospatial malaria modelling to ensure sustained impact.

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Publications

Evaluating COVID-19-Related Disruptions to Effective Malaria Case Management in 2020–2021 and Its…

published 05 April 2023
Authors: Paulina A. Dzianach et al

Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria intervention coverage, morbidity, and…

published 21 September 2020
Authors: Daniel J Weiss et al

Maps and metrics of insecticide-treated net access, use, and nets-per-capita in Africa…

published 11 June 2021
Authors: Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al

Mapping the global endemicity and clinical burden of Plasmodium vivax, 2000–17: a…

published 19 June 2019
Authors: Katherine E Battle et al

Mapping the global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of Plasmodium falciparum, 2000–17: a…

published 19 June 2019
Authors: Daniel J Weiss et al

Plasmodium falciparum Mortality in Africa between 1990 and 2015

published 21 June 2017
Authors: N/A

Researchers Publications

Correction: Quantifying the contribution of Plasmodium falciparum malaria to febrile illness amongst…

published 16 May 2018
Authors: Ursula Dalrymple et al

How long do rapid diagnostic tests remain positive after anti-malarial treatment?

published 08 June 2018
Authors: Ursula Dalrymple et al

malariaAtlas: an R interface to global malariometric data hosted by the Malaria…

published 05 October 2018
Authors: Daniel A. Pfeffer et al

Spatio-temporal mapping of Madagascar’s Malaria Indicator Survey results to assess Plasmodium falciparum…

published 15 May 2018
Authors: Su Yun Kang et al

Country specific predictions of the cost-effectiveness of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 in endemic…

published 24 November 2016
Authors: Katya Galactionova et al

Developing global maps of insecticide resistance risk to improve vector control

published 21 February 2017
Authors: Michael Coleman et al

Geographical distributions of African malaria vector sibling species and evidence for insecticide…

published 20 February 2017
Authors: Antoinette Wiebe et al

Going beyond personal protection against mosquito bites to eliminate malaria transmission: population…

published 27 April 2017
Authors: Gerry F Killeen et al

Housing Improvements and Malaria Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multi-Country Analysis of…

published 21 February 2017
Authors: Lucy S. Tusting et al

Improved prediction accuracy for disease risk mapping using Gaussian process stacked generalization

published 20 September 2017
Authors: Samir Bhatt et al

Contemporary epidemiological overview of malaria in Madagascar: operational utility of reported routine…

published 18 October 2016
Authors: Rosalind E. Howes et al

Estimating Geographical Variation in the Risk of Zoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi Infection in…

published 05 August 2016
Authors: Freya M. Shearer et al