Maximising the public health impact of interventions to control malaria in pregnancy through the translation of EDCTP-funded evidence-based global policies to country level policies and plans (IMPPACT)

Objectives

Overall Objective: To ensure the translation of WHO recommendations on malaria in pregnancy control policy resulting from the MiP Consortium’s research into country level policy and implementation plans.

Specific Research Objectives:

1. Develop and make widely available a package of methodological tools that define optimal, cost-effective malaria in pregnancy interventions by drug resistance and transmission strata across sub-Saharan Africa using data from EDCTP-funded research;
2. Advance optimal uptake of evidence-base through analysis of national level policy decision-making architecture and processes for the control of malaria in pregnancy to inform support in four selected countries, and evaluate the success of the policy change support processes as an exemplar to other countries;
3. Provide expertise to support national policy change and preparation for implementation in the selected countries and ensure dissemination to policy stakeholders in the remaining trial countries;
4. Maintain the MiP Consortium’s advocacy, networking, and dissemination functions and policy liaison activities with WHO.