Collins has key roles in malERA study to globally eradicate malaria | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Collins has key roles in malERA study to globally eradicate malaria Collins has key roles in malERA study to globally eradicate malaria Published: February 07, 2011 Author: Marissa Gebhard The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative, funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a rigorous scientific consultative process to identify knowledge gaps and new tools that will be needed to eradicate malaria globally. Frank Collins, the George and Winifred Clark Chair in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, is one of 14 independent scientists on the steering committee who leads the vector control consultative group. PLoS Medicine recently published the recommendations of the Malaria Eradication Research Agenda initiative. In two years, more than 250 of the leading scientists from 36 countries have participated in 20 meetings and developed a research and development agenda. The core of the malERA process was organized around seven consultative groups that bring together experts from diverse scientific and technological areas: 1) drugs; 2) health systems, operational research and diagnostics; 3) integration strategies; 4) modeling; 5) monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance; 6) vaccines and 7) vector control. The report concludes, among other things, that eliminating malaria in some areas calls for radical new interventions to attack the mosquitoes that carry the disease, ideally with a strategy such as genetic modification that would have long-term effects. That calls for better understand of the vector’s biology as well as innovative cross-disciplinary technologies to control the mosquitoes, measure transmission and educate communities about vector control. The malERA initiative was created after the re-establishment of malaria eradication as a long-term goal during the Malaria Forum convened by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2007, on the understanding that such a goal will be unachievable without the development of a new generation of tools focused on interrupting transmission. In addition to the steering committee, there is an international advisory committee composed of veterans of eradication and elimination campaigns of both malaria and other diseases, and a leadership council comprised of leaders such as Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, and Awa Coll-Seck, executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Board. Contact: Frank Collins, 574-631-9245, frank@nd.edu Posted In: Research Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 05, 2022 Astrophysicists find evidence for the presence of the first stars October 04, 2022 NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 22, 2022 Climate-prepared countries are losing ground, latest ND-GAIN index shows For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn