Quantifying the relationship between human mobility and disease transmission is critical for identifying disease sources and designing interventions. Methods for capturing mobility patterns have largely been used to characterize settled populations. Mobility patterns in mobile populations, such as nomads, are … Continued
TESTsmART Study Team Training 17-18 February 2020 Eldoret, Kenya The TESTsmART Team is used to meeting virtually, and had mastered the art of Zoom meetings before it became the modus operandi of the post-COVID world. Team members are physically based … Continued
Meet Christine Markwalter! She is one of the postdocs working with the O’Meara Lab and has been a member of the greater malaria research community at Duke for 3 years. Christine came to Duke after completing her doctoral studies at … Continued
“My brother thought I’d like to code but I didn’t want to listen to him,” says Zena Lapp, our newest computational postdoctoral research associate. Famous last words! Zena joins us from the University of Michigan where she finished up her … Continued
Our very own Dr. Josephine Malinga was featured by Women in Malaria! Congratulations Dr. Josephine!
The School of Medicine features the new Partnership for Malaria Education and Academic Research Laboratory on the website!
Over the last few months, we have worked on setting up community-based malaria surveillance in Turkana with the help of the County Health Leadership. Here are a few highlights: We trained 100 community health workers from five communities to follow … Continued
On Thursday, the Governor of Bungoma County, the Vice Chancellor of Moi University, the Dean of Medicine and Dean of Public Health of Moi University joined Dr. O’Meara, Dr. Laktabai and Dr. Kisaka to official open the PEARL laboratory in … Continued
This month, we received a new award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) to study interventional approaches to improve the targeting of artemisinin combination therapy to individuals with confirmed malaria infection. This new project builds on … Continued
ExactDx in PLoS Medicine! The primary results of our community-based cluster randomized trial in western Kenya. The main points: In most malaria-endemic countries, first-line antimalarials called artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTs, are available over the counter in retail medicine outlets … Continued
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