All you need to know about the MESA Deep Dives

What are the Deep Dives?

The Deep Dives are interactive decision-support tools that provide a comprehensive view of malaria research on specific topics. They compile active and completed projects, their outputs, best practices, and insights from both published and grey literature into an easy to navigate interactive platform. 

Think of them as systematic reviews but more granular and dynamic. 

Drawing on MESA Track as the primary information source, the Deep Dives compile all projects addressing a specific research question and classify them by research area, timeline, and geographic location in an interactive format. They also include information on funding sources, principal institutions, and principal investigators, providing a dynamic and up-to-date view of the malaria research landscape.

Why the Deep Dives?

To accelerate progress toward malaria elimination and eradication, the malaria community needs a clear understanding of the research landscape—how resources are allocated, who is driving research efforts, which themes are emerging or declining, and where critical knowledge and funding gaps remain, particularly in relation to the priorities of malaria-endemic countries.

What is the mission of the Deep Dives?

The Deep Dives serve as a “one-stop shop” that enables the malaria community to explore decision-relevant insights into the research questions being addressed, the methods used, and the results generated, while also offering foresight into evidence likely to emerge from active research. 

In doing so, the Deep Dives make information accessible and actionable at the right time to support researchers, national malaria programs, policymakers, and funders in aligning research efforts with country programmatic needs and strategic priorities along the continuum from control to elimination and eradication.

What do the Deep Dives bring you?

If you are…

Planning a new project or preparing a grant application: Deep Dives help you avoid duplication and identify opportunities for collaboration by showing which projects have recently been completed and may already have outputs, as well as which projects are underway or about to start and are expected to generate results in the future.

Leading a project that is in a Deep Dive: Deep Dives increase the visibility of your work and provide insights into other professionals working in the same field.

A policymaker, implementer or funding agency: Deep Dives help identify relevant and timely research that could inform evidence-based policy-making, strategies, funding frameworks, and investment decisions.

Where can you find the Deep Dives?

Deep Dives are part of the MESA Track tool and are available on the MESA website, under the MESA Track section: http://mesamalaria.org/mesa-track/deep-dives

As part of MESA’s role as the global malaria knowledge hub, Deep Dives are designed to support timely access to emerging information and knowledge to inform decision-making.

All the Deep Dives are periodically disseminated through our social media channels and newsletter.

How can your project be part of the Deep Dives?

All contributions to the MESA Deep Dives are welcome. If you are currently involved in, or planning malaria research activities, please add your project to the database or contact the MESA Team at mesa@isglobal.org to share information about your project. 

By contributing, you help strengthen a shared knowledge base that supports coordinated research efforts and evidence-informed action toward malaria elimination and eradication.

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