A new research consortium led by ICTP has launched to help improve guidance in public health responses to malaria control. The project aims to address a key question concerning the attribution of climate change in health, namely to determine how much long-term changes in climate have helped or hindered the efforts of national malaria control programs to reduce or eliminate malaria transmission rates in Africa.
Funded by a major grant from Wellcome, the project—titled ACCLIMATISE (Attribution of a Changing CLIMate in the AssessmenT of malaria Intervention Strategy Effectiveness)—thus aims to allow governments to better assess the effectiveness of their disease control strategies in a warming world.
