Collaborative knowledge-sharing
Sharing knowledge, lessons learnt and best practices is vital to building resilient, sustainable health systems that can respond to the threat of infectious diseases. By strengthening collaboration across countries, disciplines and sectors — and ensuring timely access to data and evidence — we can improve surveillance, inform targeted responses and accelerate progress towards disease elimination. In a connected world, no country can act alone — knowledge exchange empowers communities, partners and health systems to act rapidly and efficiently when challenges arise.
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Global platforms to accelerate malaria elimination
Originally established in 2009, Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Vector Control Working Group (APMEN VCWG) has been an active and productive platform to provide vector control capacity strengthening opportunities, especially among national malaria control programmes (NMCPs) of member states. The VCWG now includes a dedicated Interest Group on Climate, Environmental Change and Malaria, working to identify policy recommendations for NMCPs.
In practice: In Asia, Malaria Consortium serves as the implementing agent for the APMEN VCWG, providing capacity strengthening in vector surveillance and control to 22 member states. We facilitate knowledge-sharing through online and in-person courses, a web-based information-sharing platform, as well as exchange visits for peer learning. As Chair of the Vector Control Working Group, we provide technical leadership and programmatic coordination to advance progress towards malaria elimination in the region.
“Through its 15 years of existence, APMEN has grown to be a trusted partner and demonstrated consistent and strong support to national institutions working towards malaria elimination. Much of this has been through the three Working Groups, with a focus on vector control, surveillance and response, and vivax malaria. Together, these groups have provided powerful capacity strengthening support of the highest international standard…”
Dr Leo Braack, Senior Specialist, Vector Control, Malaria Consortium.
Learn how APMEN is supporting research, training and knowledge-sharing to improve vector control strategies across the Asia Pacific region. -
South−South exchanges
Strengthening institutional capacity is critical to address the most pressing challenges in the control of Aedes-borne arboviruses, malaria elimination and insecticide resistance. Learning exchanges enable national vector control programmes and leading researchers to share critical technical expertise and explore replicable strategies for their own contexts.
In practice: Malaria Consortium is working with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria to organise South-South learning exchanges. This exchange of knowledge and technical expertise is equipping malaria programmes to move their own countries from malaria control towards elimination
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Cross-country learning
By exchanging practical insights and proven approaches, countries can strengthen their health systems, adapt interventions to local needs and develop pathways to scale for interventions. Malaria Consortium teams regularly share lessons learnt, reflecting on the applicability of strategies to new contexts and supporting each other to test and scale interventions.
In practice: In Mozambique, teams arranged a knowledge exchange with Nigeria, which has more than a decade of experience in implementing large-scale seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaigns, for insights into achieving sustainable efficiencies at scale. Mozambique reached 1.3 million children across all 23 districts of Nampula province in 2022/2023. While in Ethiopia, we are applying lessons learnt from Cambodia’s strong community-based approach to reach seasonal mobile workers more effectively with malaria services.
Read more about how Malaria Consortium works with partners to scale interventions.
Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology
The Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology, established in 2016, supports aspiring entomologists from across the world to study at universities in Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand. This programme is nurturing next-generation leaders in this highly important field to advance evidence and thinking on disease prevention, control and elimination.
