Impact Santé Afrique (ISA) in collaboration with the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) are organizing a global online conference on the occasion of World Malaria Day 2021, with the title "Celebrating African Women in the Malaria Response" on Thursday, April 22, 2021.

APMEN would like to join them for the next TechTalk titled "From Research & Development to Implementation: Next steps for the Vivax Working Group" where Prof. Ric Price will reflect on the achievements of the VxWG over the last 10+ years. Dr. Karma Lhazeen will present the draft workplan for the coming two years for which we are seeking inputs from partners on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

The Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME) as a World Malaria Event is organizing a conference on "Zero Malaria: Draw the Line Against Malaria a Call From Civil Society. Increase community engagement and ensure timely mobilization of malaria co-funding requirements of Global Fund grants" on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

Fredros Okumu from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and Sheila Ogoma from the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) are hosting a Master Class on Aedes & Stephensi on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.

Ahead of World Malaria Day 2021, country leaders, frontline health workers and global partners will come together in a virtual forum to share experiences and reflections on efforts to reach the target of Zero Malaria. The event will be co-hosted by WHO and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria on 21 April from 12:00 to 13:30 GMT / 14h00-15h30 CEST.

 

The Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA) is seeking volunteers as MESA Correspondents to report from the online MESA Webinars: Science for Malaria Impact. The webinars will be held every first Wednesday of the month starting in May until December and will last 1h starting at 2:00 pm CEST. The MESA Correspondents are volunteers who write short synopses of selected presentations that are afterwards disseminated online, enabling people who could not attend the meeting to be also informed about the current advances. Application deadline April 30, 2021.

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) offers PhD fellowships for women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries (STLCs) to pursue their PhD at a host institute in the South. Applications deadline April 15, 2021.

The 70th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting, from November 17 - 21, 2021, is planned as an in-person meeting with online aspects.

Focusing on social sciences, the first session of our monthly MESA webinars: Science for Malaria Impact will be held on May 5 at 2 PM CAT (8 AM EDT, 8 PM SGT). It will feature Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah from the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana, and Thuan Thi Nguyen, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) - Antwerp, Belgium and Vietnam.

Wellcome offers this scheme called "International Master’s Fellowships" which gives nationals of low- and middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at Master’s degree level. Application deadline April 13, 2020 (April round) and August 24, 2021 (August round).

This Massive open online course (MOOC) on “Medical entomology” aims at providing an understanding of medical and veterinary entomology at the university level. It will teach the role of vectors in the functioning of ecosystems and, in a lot of cases, how to interrupt the vector transmission chain. Classes start by May 3 and end by July 1, 2021. Registration deadline June 25, 2021.

We are pleased to invite you to the Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative Virtual Round Table taking place on 8-9 April 2021.

Fredros Okumu from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and Sheila Ogoma from the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) are hosting a Master Class on "A Thousand Lives a Day" on April 8, 2021.

Fredros Okumu from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and Sheila Ogoma from the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) are hosting a Master Class on "There’s a Gene in my Mosquitoes" on March 31, 2021.