INFORM is an African initiative to harness the combined efforts of national malaria control programmes, researchers and other regional partners to assemble and package malaria information for efficient national decision making
INFORM undertakes research on:
Mapping the intensity and seasonality of malaria transmission
Mapping populations at risk of malaria and their access to key interventions
Mapping the changing distribution of the Anopheles vector species
Urbanization and malaria
Climatic and socio-economic vulnerabilities relevant to malaria
The evaluation of the impact of malaria interventions
The synthesis of the research evidence to create country specific profiles
The history of malaria control in Africa
We believe that the future success of malaria control in Africa depends on the intelligent use of epidemiological evidence, moving away from the dogma that one size fits all.
Our ambitions are to use carefully assembled layers of data to help malaria endemic countries build an evidence platform to make sub-national decisions on the effective, efficient and equitable distribution of interventions to control malaria. We provide mapped products to national governments, assist in the use of the epidemiological evidence to design control and build a connection between the science of spatial epidemiology and the practicalities of policy decision making.
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