MalERA

The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) is a consultative initiative aimed at identifying current knowledge gaps and new tools needed for malaria eradication. Its overall purpose is to develop a multidisciplinary global research and development (R&D) agenda that can be actionable by research and public health agencies and sponsors.  MalERA does not aim to prescribe the activities of individual organizations, but rather to foster collaboration among institutions and research areas and to gain consensus on directions for malaria R&D, with eradication as the ultimate goal. The output of this process will be a White Paper that will propose how current malaria R&D should change with the goal of global eradication.

The process of forming the agenda will be as inclusive and interdisciplinary as possible, and will gather input from the malaria community as well as other disease areas. It will be developed from the work of seven Consultative Groups, which focus on different disciplinary sectors of malaria control.  Each group will produce working papers and contribute to the elaboration of the White Paper. The Stakeholder Commons webpage will constitute a public forum for wider participation in the process of defining the R&D agenda. 

MalERA is a natural continuation of the Global Malaria Action Plan launched in September 2008 by the Roll Back Malaria initiative, from which it has received endorsement and support.

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Consultative Groups

• Drugs
• Health Systems, Operational Research, and Diagnostics 
• Integration Strategies
• Modeling
• Monitoring and Evaluation, and Surveillance
• Vaccines 
• Vector Control 

Feedback from the Broader Malaria Community 

Scientists and Implementers are invited to give their feedback into the R&D agenda definition process. You can participate by responding to key questions from the consultative meetings and commenting posts from others. Meeting summaries and background documents for each group are available for review for those who want to learn more.

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Technical Meetings Calendar

Launch Meeting: November 20- 21, 2008, Montreux, Switzerland

Vaccines Meeting: November 22-23, 2008, Montreux, Switzerland

Leadership Council Meeting: December 5, 2009, Washington DC, USA/Video Conference

Monitoring and Evaluation, and Surveillance Meeting: January 26-27, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Modeling Meeting: February 23-24, 2009, Washington DC, USA

Health Systems, Operational Research, and Diagnostics Meeting: February 25-26, 2009, Washington DC, USA

Drugs Meeting: March 10-11, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand

Leadership Council Meeting: March 20, 2009, Video Conference

Vector Control Meeting: May 26-27, 2009, Washington DC, USA

Integration Strategies Meeting: September 28-29, 2009, Accra, Ghana

Young Investigators Meeting: October 8-9, 2009, Boston, USA

Symposium at MIM Meeting: November 4, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya

Symposium at ASTMH Meeting: November 20, 2009, Washington DC, USA

Leadership Council Meeting: December 21, 2009, Video Conference

Zenith Week: March 23-26, 2010, Washington DC, USA