Last Updated: 11/06/2025
Myanmar Regional Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (Myanmar ICEMR)
Objectives
New tools for mapping and predicting malaria risk are needed to help National Malaria Control Programs in Southeast Asia to eliminate drug-resistant malaria. At sites in central Myanmar and on both sides of its borders with China and Bangladesh, the Myanmar Regional Center of Excellence for Malaria Research will integrate findings from clinical and field research, including molecular surveillance, genomic epidemiology and geospatial mapping and modelling of malaria risk, to provide essential knowledge, tools, and evidence-based strategies to stratify malaria risk, with the ultimate aim of accelerating malaria elimination in the region.
Because the heaviest concentrations of malaria in Myanmar and neighbouring countries are found in border and conflict areas that are often out of reach of national health systems, malaria elimination—and malaria research in support of elimination—requires a multi-sectoral, cross-border approach.
Working closely with local and regional partners, this project aims to establish a new ICEMR centred in Myanmar, with sites in central Myanmar and on both sides of its borders with China and Bangladesh. By integrating findings from clinical and field research, including molecular surveillance, genomic epidemiology and geospatial mapping and modelling of malaria risk, innovative multidisciplinary research will be conducted, that will provide essential knowledge, tools, and evidence-based strategies for national malaria control programs and their partners to control, treat and ultimately eliminate malaria in Southeast Asia.
Drug Resistance
Epidemiology
Genetics and Genomics
Humanitarian Emergencies
Measurement of Transmission
Modeling
Operational Research
Surveillance
Apr 2017 — Mar 2024
$5.74M
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