The intensive weeklong foundational leadership development course is convened annually in collaboration by Harvard University, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

For more information, visit the course website.

Speakers:
Ify Aniebo, MPH, MSc, PhD
Takemi International Fellow
Harvard Chan School

Hezekiah Shobiye, DrPH
MPA Candidate
Harvard Kennedy School

Sponsors:
Harvard Chan’s Nigerian Student Association, Harvard Chan ASEAN Association, Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria, Harvard’s Defeating Malaria Initiative, Center for African Studies at Harvard University

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• Opening Session: Mapping the Trajectory: Implications of the 2018 World Malaria Report
  Introduction: Chandy C. John
  Speaker: Pedro L. Alonso
• Panel Session: Overcoming Finance Obstacles for Sustainability
  Session Chair: Alan Court
  Panelists: Olusoji Adeyi and Mark Dybul
• Panel Session: Resistance as a Driver for Innovation
  Session Chair: Lee Hall
  Panelists: Abdoulaye Djimdé, David A. Fidock, Christen Fornadel, and Carol Sibley
• Keynote Address
  Introduction: Rose Leke
  Speaker: Anthony S. Fauci
• Panel Session: Capitalizing on Novel Technologies to Combat Malaria
  Session Chair: Dyann F. Wirth
  Panelists: John H. Adams, Rebeca Carballar, Anthony A. James, and Elizabeth A.
  Winzeler
• Panel Session: Maximizing Innovations in High-burden Country
  Settings
  Session Chair: Regina Rabinovich
  Panelists: Laurence Slutsker, Alex Rowe, Rick Steketee, Stefan Swartling Peterson, and Pradipsinh K. Rathod
• Panel Session: The Search for New Tools
  Session Chair: Kent E. Kester
  Panelists: Jean-Luc Bodmer, Robert Seder, Robert Sauerwein, and Dyann F. Wirth
• Panel Session: Messaging Complexities in the Malaria Story
  Session Chair: Joshua Blumenfeld
  Panelists: Chris Collins, Ben Humphrey, and Margaret McDonnell
• Panel Session: Planning for Progress
  Session Chair: Gonzalo Fanjul
  Panelists: Jean Luc Bodmer, Lee Hall, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Rick Steketee, and
  Regina Rabinovich
• Closing Remarks
  Session Chairs: Rafael Villasanjuan and Regina Rabinovich

• Christopher Flowers, Managing Director and CEO, JC Flowers & Co. and Founder, JC Flowers Foundation
• Dean David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
• The Right Rev. Luke Lungile Pato, Bishop of the Diocese of Namibia
• The Right Rev. David Njovu, Bishop of the Diocese of Lusaka, Zambia
• Professor Jacob K. Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
• The Right Rev. André Soares, Bishop of the Diocese of Angola & Vice-President of the Council of Christian Churches in Angola
• Kenneth Staley, Global Coordinator, US President’s Malaria Initiative
• Professor Dyann F. Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

In addition to exclusive access to readings and online course materials, participants gained knowledge and skills to develop and direct malaria control, elimination, and eradication programs through an understanding of:

• Past disease eradication efforts;
• Malaria biology and epidemiology;
• Vector and parasite biology;
• New tools for eradication, including genomics and gene drives;
• Communication and advocacy;
• Financing for malaria elimination;
• Supply chain management;
• Impact of individual behaviors as well as political, social, and environmental factors including climate change;
• Surveillance techniques;
• Health systems;
• Principles of applied modeling; and
• Private and public sectors’ roles in elimination efforts.

For more information, visit the course website.

The event was presented by the Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum and Harvard University’s Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe Initiative. The panelists for the event were:

• Alastair Fung, MD and Arzhang Cyrus Javan, MD – MPH candidates in Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Kritika Singh, Undergraduate at Northeastern University, Founder and CEO of Malaria Free World
• Andrea Smidler, PhD candidate in Genetics and Molecular Entomology in Public Health at Harvard University

The panelists for the event were:
• Dr Ify Aniebo, Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation, presented on “Malaria Elimination in Nigeria: A Reality or Myth?”
• Dr Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented on “Nutrition and Malaria: Findings from Recent Randomized Controlled Trials”
• Dr Heverton Dutra, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented on “Wolbachia: New Thinking on an Ancient Problem”

Moderator:

• Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speakers:

• Marcia Castro, PhD, Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Celina M. Turchi Martelli, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and Researcher, Institute Aggeu Magalhães, FIOCRUZ
• C. Jessica Metcalf, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Anne Rimoin, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
• Pardis Sabeti, MD, PhD, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Member, Broad Institute, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Opening Remarks

• Allan M. Brandt, PhD, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator:

• Regina Rabinovich, MD, MPH, ExxonMobil Malaria Scholar in Residence at Harvard University and Chair of the malERA Refresh at the Malaria Education Scientific Alliance

Speakers:

• Jesse Bump, PhD, Lecturer on Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population, Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Joseph Cook, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Conrad Keating, Writer in Residence, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University
• Irene Koek, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Health Bureau USAID, President’s Malaria Initiative
• Daniel Neafsey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Dyann Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The panel discussion focused on the future of disease control and eradication in the context of political instability and climate change.

Moderator

• Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Hospitalist, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Panelists:

• Marcia Castro, PhD, Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Alan Court, Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria
• Elfatih Eltahir, PhD, Breen M. Kerr Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Convened in collaboration by Harvard University, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the 2017 edition of the course took place in Basel, Switzerland.

For more information, visit the course website.

Global health advocates and talented storytellers with expertise in documentary filmmaking, graphic/animated video production, and mass communication campaigns shared insider perspectives on the potential to positively impact global health through creative mechanisms.

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View the Health Systems & Reform publications here.

A recording of this event can be found here.

Participants of the intensive weeklong Core Course of the Science of Eradication: Malaria leadership development course gained knowledge and skills to develop and direct malaria control, elimination, and eradication programs.
Find out more here.

Participants also learned more about malaria and our shared roles in eradicating this deadly disease. The Harvard Malaria Competition was sponsored by Harvard’s Defeating Malaria Initiative, Malaria No More, and the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria.

Malaria Assassins was an interactive way for students to learn about the latest progress towards malaria eradication while engaging with others. The Harvard Malaria Competition is sponsored by Harvard’s Defeating Malaria Initiative, Malaria No More, and the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria.

To find out more, visit Malaria Assassins.

Harvard College undergraduates accepted into the program attended three 2 hour-long evening sessions, where they discussed different aspects of the challenges and approaches to global malaria eradication, from the biology of the parasite to interventions and environmental factors, as well as economic and policy considerations with Harvard faculty. The first two sessions provided students with the necessary foundation to actively participate in a case study which occurred during the final session. Upon completion of all three sessions, students received a letter of recommendation from the organizing faculty affirming their participation in the colloquium.

Find out more here

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Event host Professor Ashish Jha, PhD, K.T. Li Professor of International Health and Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute moderated a discussion with Rear Admiral Ziemer, Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Regina Rabinovich, MD, MPH, ExxonMobil Scholar in Residence at Harvard University, and Dyann Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases.

Panel goals and objectives: 

1. Review progress made in basic science and enabling technologies for malaria elimination since malERA 2011.

2. Refine the current, and identify any new, research and development questions for malaria elimination.

3. Prioritize the updated research and development questions for malaria elimination.

Find out more here.

Panel discussions focused on:

• Old and New Pandemics, ranging from AIDS, TB, and malaria to new threats including ebola, obesity, and diabetes;
• Social and Environmental Threats, ranging from air and water pollution to violence and war;
• Poverty and Humanitarian Crises and their effects on health; and
• Failing Health Systems as we seek to get more and better health care for the money we spend, both in the US and internationally.

To learn more, visit Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s website.

The 2015 recipients of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize were Ruth S. Nussenzweig and Victor Nussenzweig, faculty at the NYU Langone Medical Center, and Tu Youyou of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing. They were recognized for their pioneering discoveries in chemistry and parasitology, and their personal commitment to translating these discoveries into effective chemotherapeutic and vaccine-based approaches to controlling malaria.

For more information, visit the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize website.

For more information, visit the course website.

For more information, visit the course website.

Convened in collaboration by Harvard University, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the 2015 edition of the course was hosted at the Harvard Business School.

For more information, visit the course website.

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World Malaria Day forum explores public-private partnerships

Hosts & Moderators

• Ray Chambers, United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria – Video Message
• Sancia Dalley, Director, Global Programs and Partnerships, GBCHealth
• Dyann F. Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Ryan Johnson, Accenture Development Partners (Moderator)
• David Golan, MD, PhD, Dean for Graduate Education, Harvard Medical School (Moderator)

Panelists

• Halima Mwenesi, PhD, Director, Infectious Diseases Division, Global Health Programs, Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group, FHI 360
• Regina Rabinovich, MD, MPH, ExxonMobil Scholar in Residence at Harvard University and Director, Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
• Douglass Simpson, Former President and CEO, Corgenix
• Santiago Ferro, MD, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Fio Corporation
• Jacob Williams, PhD, MPH, Director, Integrated Vector Management, Research Triangle Institute (RTI); Co-Chair, Vector Control Working Group, Roll Back Malaria Partnership
• Samuel Asiedu Agyei, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Episcopal Relief & Development/NetsforLife®
• Eliza Petrow, Senior Technical Program Adviser, J.C. Flowers Foundation
• Elaine Roman, Malaria Director, Jhpiego
• Rebecca Stevens, Director of Public Affairs, Malaria Initiative, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Hosts & Moderators

• Barry Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. & Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health
• Matthias Marti, Associate Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases
• Michael Reich, Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy
• Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor & Chair, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases

Speakers

• Caroline Buckee, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
• Marcia Castro, Associate Professor of Demography
• Flaminia Catteruccia, Associate Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases
• Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professor of Global Health
• Manoj Duraisingh, Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases
• Günther Fink, Associate Professor of International Health Economics
• Sarah Volkman, Principal Research Scientist

Event details

December 4, 2014                                                                                                                                       Symposium – 3:00pm – 5:30pm, Kresge G3, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Poster Session & Reception – 5:30pm – 6:30pm, FXB Building Lobby/Atrium, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Held at the Fiocruz research facility in Porto Velho, Brazil, the course enrollment was targeted at graduate students and/or post-doctoral fellows from Harvard University (Medical School, School of Public Health, etc.) and from academic institutions in Latin America.

At the start of the course, students participated in a two-day public workshop titled, “Multidisciplinary Malaria Research in the Era of Elimination,” led by internationally renowned scientists and teaching faculty who presented and discussed recent advances in areas of parasite biology, vector biology, entomology, immunology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology. 

Immediately following the workshop, students participated in a 4-day course that was composed of lectures, discussions, site visits, and laboratory work.

Hosts & Speakers

• Gail H. Cassell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Dyann F. Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Experts from Academia, Global Health Research Centers & Industry

• Broad Institute
• Emory University
• Harvard University
• Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
• KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV
• Merck Serono
• South African Medical Research Council
• Stanford School of Medicine

Event Details

Friday, November 7, 2014
9:00am – 3:45pm
Ballard Room, Countway Library of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA

This meeting was generously supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, OzEMalaR, and EVIMalaR networks of excellence.

For more information, visit the course website.

For more information, visit the course website.

A winning proposal of the Harvard Malaria Competition, Mob Malaria was funded and sponsored by Harvard’s Defeating Malaria Initiative, Malaria No More, and the United Nation’s Special Envoy for Malaria. The initiative rests on the idea that awareness is the first step toward change, and fun is a first step toward awareness. After all, if we can do incredible and ridiculous things for fun, why can’t we do them for good?

Unlike traditional flash mobs, Mob Malaria was a flash mob experience for its participants, who performed ridiculous, fun actions under the guidance of a pre-recorded audio file. You can check out our social media campaign at https://www.facebook.com/mobmalaria and www.twitter.com/MobMalaria.

Miles Against Malaria

Friday, April 25, 2014 (World Malaria Day)
DCR Artesani Herter Park
1255 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02135

Schedule:
12:00 – 1:00PM Open registration, check-in, & t-shirt collection
1:00PM Opening events: introduction, speaker, performances
1:30PM 5K Walk/Jog/Run Start Time
2:30PM Awards Ceremony and closing event

Keynote Speaker
Daniel L. Hartl
Higgins Professor of Biology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Saturday, April 12, 2014
8:00AM – 5:00PM (followed by networking reception)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kresge Cafeteria
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Faculty and global health experts participating in this Global Health Meet & Greet include:

• Professor Caroline Buckee, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, whose research focuses on mining cell phone data to track how people’s movements correlate with the spread of disease.
• Professor Dan Milner, a pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, who conducts research into cerebral malaria in Malawi and other field sites.

Faculty and global health experts participating in this Global Health Meet & Greet include:

• Professor Caroline Buckee, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, whose research focuses on mining cell phone data to track how people’s movements correlate with the spread of disease.
• Professor Manoj Duraisingh, a molecular biologist who is researching the biology of host-parasite interactions in malaria.

Faculty and global health experts participating in this Global Health Meet & Greet include:

• Professor Caroline Buckee, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, whose research focuses on mining cell phone data to track how people’s movements correlate with the spread of disease.
• Professor Manoj Duraisingh, a molecular biologist who is researching the biology of host-parasite interactions in malaria.
• Professor Christian Happi, Redeemer’s University and ExxonMobil Malaria Leadership Fellow at Harvard, is an expert in antimalarial drug resistance and is currently exploring new ways to incorporate mobile phone technology to track malaria in Nigeria.

The summit will feature three panels:

• The Global Health Experience: What We Can Learn
• Mobilizing for Global Health: Stories from the Field
• To Alleviate Human Suffering: Our Work to Strengthen Global Health Care

Select Presenters:

Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP, Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
J. Christopher Flowers, President, J.C. Flowers Foundation, Co-founder, Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative, Founder and Investor, NetsforLife
Dyann Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director, Harvard Malaria Initiative, Faculty Chair, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Robin Young, Co-host, Here & Now on WBUR and NPR
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University, Chief Strategist, Partners In Health, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti
Atul Gawande, MD, PhD, Director, Ariadne Labs: A Joint Center for Health Systems Innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, General and Endocrine Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speakers

Martin Edlund, CEO, Malaria No More
Together with Novartis, Malaria No More recently launched the Power of One – a campaign that uses mobile technology to track impact and engage the public in Africa and the United States. Power of One uses popular digital platforms, like Twitter and Venmo, and includes a comprehensive media strategy component.

Rich Mintz, Executive Vice President, Blue State Digital
A media and technology strategist with Blue State Digital – the firm responsible for the digital technology strategy for the 2008 & 2012 Obama campaigns and other clients such as Vogue and Google – Rich works with clients to bring about change.

Caroline Buckee, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Recently named one of CNN’s Top 10 Thinkers – Professor Buckee’s research focuses on mining cell phone data to track how people’s movements correlate with the spread of disease.

Harvard Malaria Competition Announcement

A special preview of top ideas from Harvard University students to defeat malaria.

The forum featured Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

An introduction was provided by leading Harvard epidemiologist Caroline Buckee and distinguished molecular biologist Manoj Duraisingh.

The screening was sponsored by the Harvard Health Advocacy Program, the Harvard Global Health Institute and Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe.

This $10,000 student competition was sponsored by the MCJ/Amelior Foundation and co-sponsored by Harvard’s Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe initiative. Find out more.

The goal of this Forum was to bring together leaders at the intersection of public-private partnerships, in particular those from pharmaceutical, biotech and agro-chemical industries, and academia, to discuss and explore actionable solutions and new R&D approaches to eradicate malaria. The Forum featured leaders in global malaria discussing the knowledge gaps and major biological and clinical roadblocks in our understanding of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.

These new approaches build on two complementary trends: 1) the advent of cheap, accurate rapid diagnostic tests for malaria that create 200 million new data points for the disease on the African continent each year, and 2) the mobile revolution in Africa (1 billion mobile phones by 2015), which can capture and deliver this data to decision makers in real time. These new tools are transforming health education, stock management, the fight against counterfeits, and real time epidemiology in ways that are saving lives and paving the way for malaria eradication. They’re also creating an unprecedented opportunity for donors in the developed world to donate and track the real time progress of their investments on the ground in Africa.

• Martin Edlund, CEO, Malaria No More, highlighted how innovative use of technology can make malaria the “first disease beaten by mobile”.
• Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Co-Founder, Venmo, described how Venmo’s innovation in the social payment space can inspire radical change in the way people engage charity and global causes.
• Ashifi Gogo, CEO, Sproxil, talked about the company’s award-winning “Mobile Product Authentication,” a counterfeit protection technology that allows consumers to protect themselves from fake or stolen goods and has the potential to transform data in the fight against disease. Sproxil was recently named the #1 Most Innovative Company in healthcare by Fast Company.
• Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, moderated the discussion.

For more information, visit the Science of Eradication website.

Participants enrolled in the Core Module gained knowledge and skills to develop and direct malaria control, elimination, and eradication programs through an understanding of past disease eradication efforts; malaria biology and epidemiology; vector and parasite biology; application of vector control, drug, and vaccine strategies; economic and financial tools and strategies; impact of social and political factors; surveillance techniques; and modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of eradication strategies.

For more information, visit the Science of Eradication website.

The Harvard Malaria Competition is sponsored by the MCJ/Amelior Foundation and co-sponsored by Harvard’s Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe initiative.

• All Harvard University students in good academic standing are eligible to participate (all schools).
• Group and individual applications are welcomed.
• The sponsors look forward to learning about your ideas, hearing your pitch, and providing you with some valuable feedback along the way.

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Held in the historic Kennedy Caucus Room and hosted by Senate Caucus on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, ASTMH, along with PATH, Malaria No More, Friends of the Global Fight, Global Health Technologies Coalition, Nothing But Nets and World Vision, held a discussion on malaria control efforts.

The panel included  Sarah Volkman, ScD, Principal Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ASTMH Councilor, FASTMH, who addressed the economic impact of malaria research efforts in the U.S. Three members of Congress offered remarks noting the important role of bi-partisan support for malaria and the need for a continued strong U.S. investment: Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.-5th). In addition, Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer reviewed the huge gains made thus far in malaria. The panel was moderated by ASTMH Executive Director Karen A. Goraleski.

Speakers:

• Elizabeth Chizema, Head of Research, Ministry of Health, Zambia
• James Jones, Manager, Community Investment Programs, ExxonMobil Foundation
• Sarah Volkman, Principal Research Scientists, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & ASTMH Councilor

Plasmodium vivax – The Last Parasite Standing – Scientific Symposium

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
1:30-5:00pm
Auditorium, Broad Institute

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Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe Symposium

Friday, March 29, 2013
3:30 – 6:00pm
Kresge, G1
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Malaria Research Poster Session & Networking Reception
Friday, March 29, 2013
6:00 – 7:00pm
Kresge Cafeteria
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Click below to watch a recording of the Symposium:

• Part one
• Part two

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Convened by leading epidemiologist, Caroline Buckee, and distinguished molecular biologist, Manoj Duraisingh, the “Meet & Greets’ provided undergraduates with an opportunity to meet with leading faculty and share their interests and ideas around global health.

Both speakers shared their experiences and views on how the global malaria community select priorities, engage partners and create sustainability in their effort to eradication malaria.

Event co-sponsors included:

• Harvard College Global Health & AIDS Coalition
• Harvard College Global Health Review
• Harvard Health Advocacy Program
• Harvard Health Policy Society
• Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum

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Following the inaugural 2012 course, hosted at the Harvard Business School, future courses will be convened in rotation by the three institutions, with the 2013 edition taking place in Barcelona, Spain.