We believe that to defeat malaria we need to be able to measure it.
Approach
Quantifying the human toll of malaria cases and deaths each year is critical for understanding progress towards a malaria-free world. Mapping the landscape of malaria risk allows resources to be better targeted. Tracking malaria control efforts, and their impact, allow strategies to be reviewed and refined. But measuring malaria is not easy. Data can be sparse, incomplete, or unrepresentative, and have the potential to mislead as well as to inform. At MAP, we aim to combine the world’s malaria data with cutting-edge analytics so that we can generate the best possible information to help guide the fight against the disease.
Our Impact
Outputs
Approach
Approach
Data
Data
We house the world’s largest malaria ...
Data
We house the world’s largest malaria database, assembling millions of data elements each year from field surveys, scientific studies, and routine surveillance systems, augmented by relevant environmental and demographic data from many sources.
Collaboration
Collaboration
MAP is a network of researchers from across the world ...
Collaboration
MAP is a network of researchers from across the world and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. We are epidemiologists, public health specialists, geographers, statisticians, and modelling experts. MAP members have also bring expertise in working within National Malaria Control Programs and endemic country research institutions.
Analytics
Analytics
We develop innovative analytical ...
Analytics
We develop innovative analytical approaches to making sense of complex malaria data. We are leaders in geospatial analysis, spatial and spatiotemporal statistical methods, machine learning, and computational disease models.
Engagement
Engagement
Everything MAP does is geared around ...
Engagement
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.
Outputs
Mapping
Risk
We generate high-resolution maps of the malaria risk landscape at both ...
We generate high-resolution maps of the malaria risk landscape at both global and national levels – estimating infection prevalence, incidence rates, and mortality by pixel.
Estimating
Burden
We estimate annual malaria cases and deaths in endemic countries – ...
We estimate annual malaria cases and deaths in endemic countries – measuring the burden of the disease and the direction of trends towards international targets.
Evaluating
Impact
We use statistical models to infer the impact that current control measures ...
We use statistical models to infer the impact that current control measures are having on malaria transmission and burden – this can inform refinement of control strategies
Planning
Commodities
We provide tools for calculating malaria commodity needs, enabling countries ...
We provide tools for calculating malaria commodity needs, enabling countries to quantify the resources they need to protect their populations.
Tracking
Interventions
We track the coverage of malaria drugs, diagnostics, and vector control to ...
We track the coverage of malaria drugs, diagnostics, and vector control to understand which populations may be less well protected
Strengthening
Skills
We provide training, supervision, and mentorship to build skills in malaria ...
We provide training, supervision, and mentorship to build skills in malaria analytics
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Featured Projects
Estimating the potential malaria morbidity and mortality avertable by the President’s Malaria Initiative in 2025: a geospatial modelling analysis
Since its inception in 2005, the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has played a major role in the reductions in malaria morbidity and mortality witnessed across Africa. With the status of PMI funding and operations currently uncertain, this study aimed to quantify the impact that a fully-functioning PMI would have on malaria cases and deaths in Africa during 2025.
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Climate Impacts on Malaria in Africa
Africa
The effects of climate change on the burden of malaria are already evident today. Extreme weather events with some linkage to climate change—such as floods and cyclones—have resulted in increases in malaria cases and deaths. These events have likewise negatively impacted malaria control programs at the country level.
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Evaluating the impact of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa
Africa
Since the year 2000, a concerted campaign against malaria has led to unprecedented levels of intervention coverage across sub-Saharan Africa
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Vector distribution modelling/Vector Atlas
Global
Mosquito vector data are collected in a myriad of different ways by multiple data collectors for a wide variety of purposes.
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Housing in Africa
Africa
New research reveals a transformation of housing in sub-Saharan Africa, with the prevalence of improved housing doubling between 2000 and 2015.
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Malaria vaccine allocation in endemic countries
Ghana, Mozambique
WHO has approved and recommended the first malaria vaccine to be used for the prevention of P. falciparum malaria in children living in moderate to high transmission areas
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School Malaria Prevalence Survey (assessing morbidity and impact on school absenteeism)
Tanzania
This is a collaborative project between the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and MAP.
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Reactive test/treat pilot in multiple districts
Tanzania
This collaborative work between MAP, the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) in Tanzania
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Supporting malaria control and elimination efforts in Zambia with geospatial modelling
Zambia
MAP is working in a collaborative partnership with the Zambia National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) to provide broad ranging analytical support for malaria elimination in the country.
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MAP training workshop: Introduction and advanced level Spatial Analysis for Infectious Diseases
Global
MAP is committed to playing a proactive role in contributing to enhanced research capacity and leadership in malaria endemic countries and to promote bilateral knowledge sharing.
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Tracing the spread of Anopheles stephensi in different states in Sudan
Sudan
This project will support entomological data collection of essential information on An. Stephensi bionomics and its susceptibility to the available malaria vector control methods in Sudan.
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Estimating transmission potential/receptivity in Honduras
Central America
As many countries across meso-America come closer to elimination goals, understanding the transmission potential in areas where little to no transmission has occurred in the recent years becomes increasingly important to guide elimination and prevent local re-introduction of transmission
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Fine-scale mapping of risk for targeted genomic surveillance
Senegal
Enormous progress has been made in recent years in developing techniques for malaria genetic surveillance.
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Supporting risk stratification in Angola
Angola
As Southern Angola aims to scale up their application of IRS, a targeted approach will allow
for maximal impact.
Modelling malaria risk and burden in India
India
MAP and researchers in India are embarking on a project to create improved maps and burden estimates for malaria
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Mapping malaria risk in Sudan using routine data
Sudan
In collaboration with Sudanese researchers and the Sudanese Ministry of Health, MAP created high-resolution maps and burden estimates of malaria burden in Sudan
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Supporting malaria commodity planning in endemic countries
Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique & Guinea
MAP’s work on global drug and diagnostic use is supplemented by this project, done in partnership with the PMI:Insights consortium to answer case-management and commodity quantification questions raised by PMI teams based in Guinea, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia.
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Forecasting global malaria commodity needs
Global
MAP, in partnership with CHAI IVCC,Swiss TPH, MMV and RBM, has produced global forecasts of demand for important malaria commodities forward to 2031. MAP provided estimates of historical and projected need, demand and consumption of ITNs, RDTs and antimalarials including ACTs.
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Modelling the global endemicity and burden of Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Global
MAP produces high-resolution estimates of Plasmodium falciparum prevalence, incidence, and mortality.
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Modelling the global endemicity and burden of Plasmodium Vivax
Global
MAP produces high-resolution maps and burden estimates for Plasmodium vivax.
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Modelling coverage of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC)
Africa
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is the monthly administration of antimalarials sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine (SP + AQ) to children at risk during a country’s peak malaria season.
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Modelling coverage of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)
Africa
In this project, we generate high-resolution maps of the proportion of household sprayed with IRS annually across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Modelling access to antimalarial drugs
Africa
In this study, we generate high-resolution maps of ITN access, use and nets-per-capita annually across the 40 highest-burden African countries.
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Modelling coverage of Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs)
Africa
In this study, we generate high-resolution maps of ITN access, use, and nets-per-capita annually across the 40 highest-burden African countries.
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Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria intervention coverage
Africa
Substantial progress has been made in reducing the burden of malaria in Africa since 2000, but those gains were jeopardised by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Accessibility to Healthcare
Global
Access to healthcare is a measure of human well-being that is constrained by numerous geographically-varying factors, the most immediate of which is the time it takes individuals to travel to a properly equipped and adequately staffed healthcare facility.
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Supporting risk stratification in High Burden High Impact countries
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Mozambique, Cameroon & Ghana
”High burden to high impact” is a country-led response – catalyzed by WHO and the RBM Partnership – to reignite the pace of progress in the global malaria fight.
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Predicting the effect of seasonality on malaria transmission
Africa
Most malaria endemic countries experience seasonal variation in transmission.
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