LSHTM webinar, Prioritising in a crisis: What next for malaria research?

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) celebrates the World Malaria Day with the webinar: Prioritising in a crisis: What next for malaria research?

Date: 25th of April, 2025

Time: 12:30-14:30

Location: Hybrid. Virtual and room John Snow Lecture Theatre, London. 

With reports each day of the impact of funding cuts for malaria and other diseases on health programming, this expert panel on World Malaria Day will discuss how to re-prioritise and focus research efforts to the malaria gains of the past 25 years are not reversed, and to continue to push forwards with malaria control. 

Speakers: 

• Estrella Lasry, Senior Malaria advisor: Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
• James Tibenderana, Chief Executive: Malaria Consortium
• Fitsum Tadesse, Lead Scientist, Armauer Hansen Research Institute and Greenwood Africa Award winner, LSHTM
• Muhammed Afolabi, Clinical Associate Professor, LSHTM
• Catherine Pitt, Professor, LSHTM
• Catherine Maiteki, NMCP Uganda
• George Jagoe, Executive Vice President of Access and Product Management, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
• Roly Gosling, Professor, LSHTM
• Umberto D’Alessandro, Director, MRC Unit Gambia