Alastair Lucas Endowment Fund
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
This project, led by University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), is conducting malaria surveillance in Myanmar which has a disproportionately large malaria burden compared to other countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), and harbours the current frontier of artemisinin-resistant malaria.
IMAGE: Community engagement for the research at a village in Kayah State
The information generated using new surveillance tools will provide an evidence base for targeting and prioritising elimination resources for maximum impact, and will be integrated into ongoing malaria elimination and drug resistance containment activities in Myanmar, in the GMS and globally. Subsequently we plan to test in real-time a potential malaria elimination strategy in pilot sites within Myanmar.
IMAGE: Collecting blood from a local woman for the research
2015 - 2016
University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)
For any general enquiries relating to this project, please contact:
Country Program Manager, Myanmar
