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Malaria Course Alumni Newsletter

Issue 26/2023
Welcome to the 26th Issue of the Malaria Course Alumni Newsletter
Wishing you a wonderful festive season. Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful, Prosperous, New Year!
Congratulations Cohort 8!
Good to know: Global trends in the burden of malaria
Tips & Tricks: Know and develop your competencies
Malaria-specific information: [Review article] What are the pathways between poverty and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa?
Your story: Brice Njobe (Cohort 6)
Your facilitator: Christine Manyando
Library (Seline Omondi, Sajjad Fekri Jaski)
Events, Trainings & Grants
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Congratulations and a Warm Welcome to Cohort 8!
16 participants from 13 African countries have completed the field malaria course. We are happy to expand our alumni network.
Would you like to share your photos, stories, articles and information with the alumni members? Click to post on the LinkedIn Alumni Group!
Cohort 8 was featured in Swiss TPH social media:
X (former Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, Newsletter
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Good to know!
In 2022, global malaria cases totaled 249 million, up by 5 million from  2021. The WHO African Region witnessed significant increases. Pakistan,  Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Papua New Guinea contributed most to the rise between 2021 and 2022. Notably, Nigeria's increase was due to population growth, while the other four countries experienced substantial incidence spikes (Global Malaria Report 2023). Read More
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Useful information
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Tips & Tricks
Stay tuned with the tips & tricks that can help you to enrich your life and work with new ideas and solutions.
This time: Know and Develop Your Competencies Read More
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Malaria-specific information
Stay up-to-date in the fight against malaria with relevant updates, news, frameworks and documents.
This time: What are the pathways between poverty and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa? (a systematic review) Read more
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Personal stories
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Your story: Brice Njobe (Cohort 6)
I was born in Bamenda, the capital city of the North West Region of Cameroon and I am a medical doctor by training. If asked to describe myself, I’d say I am a clinician with some love for research. A couple of days to my graduation from elementary school, I was seriously ill over the weekend. Though I was taken to the hospital, I had to wait four days before meeting a doctor. He informed me that I was suffering from severe malaria, modified my treatment and within a couple of days I was strong enough to attend my graduation ceremony..... Read more
Your facilitator: Christine Manyando
My first experience working with malaria was when I was a 5th year medical student, at the University of Zambia. There was a report of the possible emergence of parasites developing resistance to the then commonly used drug to treat malaria, Chloroquine. Malaria happens to be a disease that is quite prevalent in all areas of Zambia, my home country. I was then quite naïve to the fact that this could be as rampant as to even affect me as a potential patient.... Read more
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Library
Have you recently published an interesting research finding you would like to highlight to your colleagues? We are more than happy to share and consolidate your scientific new hits in our Library. 
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Events, Trainings & Grants
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Upcoming in December to April
 
Grants:
6 December Global Grand Challenges Call for Applications: Opportunities to Advance Women's Health Innovation More
2024 Bridge grant for young researchers (29th call: 4 March 2024) More
2024 MalariaGEN Call for Applications: Procurement grants for lab equipment, specialist reagents, and consumables More
2024 Procurement grants: a new funding opportunity for lab equipment, specialist reagents, and consumables More
Events:
4-6 December APMEN Surveillance and Response Working Group (SRWG) Online Annual Meeting 2023 More
6 December PAMCA Webinar: Can gene drive help address global health and biodiversity challenges? More
11 December LSHTM Lecture: Current issues in global health: Malaria, hybrid​ More
12 December Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day
14 December MasterClass with World Leading Experts: Climate, Mosquitoes and Diseases, online More
18-22 February MAM 2024 Conference: Malaria in a Changing World, Australia More
19-20 February AMP Annual Partners Meeting More
21-22 February Campaign Digitalization Meeting More
10-12 March United to Beat Malaria's 2024 Leadership Summit (application by 4 December 2023) More
25-28 March 20th meeting of the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) More
26-28 March 19th Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Control Workshop, Florida, USA (Abstract submission until 22 December, 2023) More
15-17 April 19th Annual RBM Vector Control Working Group Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda More
18-20 April 6th Annual RBM Multi-sectoral Working Group Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda More
21-27 April 8th Society Conference Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) More
 
Visit the X (formerly Twitter) of the RBM Working Groups:
Vector Control Working Group(@RBM_VCWG)
Multi-Sectoral Working Group(@RBM_MSWG)
 
The field malaria courses are organized by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Find out more about the Collaborating Institutions and Financial contributors.
Malaria Course Alumni Linkedin Group
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Contact: Konstantina Boutsika (konstantina.boutsika@swisstph.ch)
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