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Malaria Modeling field-strengthening: WAMCAD
Objectives
To support malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases mathematical modeling capacity-building efforts in West Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal).
Building malaria modeling capacity in West Africa by training a critical mass of modeling scientists across multiple career stages to work closely with national malaria control programs (NMCPs). They will strengthen infrastructure and faculty in existing laboratories, provide technical training and support, and promote modeling as a PhD program in universities. They will also develop mathematical modeling curricula in malaria and NTDs in multiple languages and adapted for each country, which will be freely available online. In addition, they will build an anglo-franco-lusophone West African consortium of modelers, epidemiologists, parasitologists, and NMCPs, to share expertise and support NMCP priorities, and ultimately to sustain reductions in malaria burden.
Mathematical Modeling Workshop Builds Capacity to Eradicate Malaria - [University of Ghana, 2023]· Article: Bayesian inference of nonlinear malaria dynamics in Ghana via an ensemble Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler - [Expert Syst Appl, 2026]· Article: Mathematical modeling for analyzing mass drug administration operational factors for efficient malaria incidence reduction in southern Senegal - [Infect Dis Model, 2026]· Article: Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of malaria risk among children under five years of age in Ghana - [BMC Infect Dis, 2025]· Article: Modelling spatiotemporal variation in under-five malaria risk in Ghana in 2016–2021 - [Malar J, 2024]
Aug 2022 — Aug 2025
$3M
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