TESTsmART Team Training

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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

Christine’s Trek to Kenya

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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

Welcome Zena!

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“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

Updates from Turkana

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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

Improving antimalarial use at the community level

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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

ExactDx at the Kenya National Malaria Forum!

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This week, the Kenya National Malaria Control Programme hosted the 3rd Kenya Malaria Forum in Nairobi. ExactDx team presented in two session. Joseph Kipkoech (above) presented results from the Malaria Voucher Study to demonstrate how targeting of antimalarials could be … Continued