Lancaster University is portion of the Malaria Modellers successful Africa consortium (MaModAfrica) which has been awarded a multi-million-pound declaration by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
MaModAfrica is simply a concern betwixt 19 institutions from Africa, Europe, Australia and the US which are dedicated to gathering malaria modeling capableness successful Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr Luigi Sedda from the Ecology and Epidemiology Group astatine Lancaster Medical School volition enactment the improvement of MSc courses and a PhD programme astir geospatial modeling for optimal malaria surveillance and control.
This is breathtaking quality for america that volition lend to the estimation of Lancaster Medical School arsenic a satellite halfway of excellence for grooming and probe successful spatial epidemiology and tropical diseases.
This latest grant is instrumental successful expanding the interaction of existent interventions against malaria and different infectious diseases successful Africa which inactive termination much than 1 cardinal radical each year.”
Dr Luigi Sedda, Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Lancaster Medical School
The three-year inaugural volition make transdisciplinary and transnational masters (MSc) and doctoral (PhD) world programs, with the purpose of expanding the fig of academically trained malaria modelers successful sub-Saharan Africa, bridging the spread betwixt world modeling and operational need, and creating an open, collaborative, sustainable level of mathematicians, statisticians, geospatial modelers, translational scientists and determination makers.
Apart from Lancaster University, the different institutions progressive see the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Université d’Abomey-Calavi successful Benin, Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso successful Burkina Faso, Swiss Center for Scientific Research successful Côte d’Ivoire, Mount Kenya University, Manhiça Health Research Centre successful Mozambique, the Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Center for Impact Innovation and Capacity Building successful HIS and Nutrition and University of Rwanda, Thies University and the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar successful Senegal, Malaria Atlas Project, Curtin University, and Telethon Kids Institute successful Australia, the Clinton Health Access Initiative successful US and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and Medicines for Malaria Venture successful Switzerland.
During the program, 30 maestro students and 8 PhD students volition beryllium trained successful malaria modeling for nationalist wellness interventions. The programs volition commencement successful autumn 2023.
Dr Sedda said: “We are looking guardant to welcoming and hosting immoderate of the students successful the coming years.”
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