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Just in time for World Malaria Day: GHG partners with Novartis Foundation to tackle malaria in Namibia

The Global Health Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, the Namibian National Vector-borne Disease Control Program (NVDCP), the…

Global Health Group and partners release the Elimination Scenario Planning tool manual

This World Malaria Day, the UCSF Global Health Group is proud to announce the release of the new report, "From Malaria Control to Malaria Elimination: A Manual for Elimination Scenario Planning" co-…

Malaria elimination background paper series is released

The UCSF Global Health Group's Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) is pleased to share with you a series of background papers designed to make evidence-based recommendations on the roles of program…

Global Health Group publishes on association of housing quality and malaria incidence

In a new study, Is housing quality associated with malaria incidence among young children and mosquito vector numbers? Evidence from Korogwe, Tanzania, published in PLoS ONE researchers from the…

Background paper on private sector malaria surveillance released

The UCSF Global Health Group's Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) is pleased to share a new paper entitled The Private Sector's Role in Malaria Surveillance. This paper is the fifth and final…

Malaria Elimination Initiative collaborator Dr. Jun Cao is awarded an impact grant from the WHO’s TDR program

In December, Dr. Jun Cao of the Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases (JIPD), Wuxi, China was awarded a research grant from TDR, the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases…

Financing malaria elimination

A new report released this week by the UCSF Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) and Cambridge Economic Policy Associates evaluates the available sources of financing for…

Role of the private sector in Malaysia's malaria elimination program

Engagement between commercial sector partners and national malaria control programs can be a key strategy for addressing challenges in malaria elimination settings.

Global Health Group is featured on ABC News

On January 14, Dr. Roly Gosling, Lead of the Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative was featured on ABC news, highlighting the initiative’s new $15 million grant from the Bill &…

Global Health Group comments on malaria and severe anemia

In response to a recent study published in PLOS medicine, Major Burden of Severe Anemia from Non-Falciparum Malaria Species in Southern Papua: A Hospital-Based Surveillance Study, Dr. Roly Gosling…

Malaria Elimination Initiative publishes on impact of Global Fund and costs to eliminate malaria

In a new article published in PLOS ONE, “Costs of Eliminating Malaria and the Impact of the Global Fund in 34 Countries”, researchers at the Malaria Elimination Initiative assess historical funding…

GHG receives $15 million grant for its malaria elimination campaign

UC San Francisco’s Global Health Group has received a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a pioneering effort to help nearly three dozen countries eliminate malaria…

MEG VIII Meeting

October 28-31, 2013
Santa Cruz, California

MEG VII Meeting

December 10-13, 2012
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Co-hosted with the United Arab Emirates University

October 31-November 3, 2011
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Co-hosted with the Zanzibar Malaria Control Programme

November 8-11, 2010
Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico
Co-hosted with Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP) and the Secretary of Health, Oaxaca

December 8-11, 2009
Hainan, China
Co-hosted with China's Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD)

MEG III Meeting

April 20-23, 2009
Brienz, Switzerland
Co-hosted with the Swiss Tropical Institute

September 30-October 3, 2008
Durban, South Africa
Co-hosted with the South African Medical Research Council

March 23-26, 2008
Santa Cruz, California