What is the current status of the malaria epidemic? A conversation with Dr James Kelley from WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Our guest this week is Dr James Kelley, Team Lead for Malaria and Vector-borne Diseases in the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Office. In honour of World Malaria Day 2023, Dr Kelley describes the status of the epidemic globally and in the Indo-Pacific Region. We also discuss: Getting the Global Technical Strategy target of reducing global malaria incidence and mortality rates by at least 90% by 2030 back on track. Recent developments in malaria prevention technologies, including new insecticide-treated nets and malaria vaccines. The potential impact of increased urbanisation on malaria risk. Progress on antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion. You can read more about the Global Technical Strategy here and the latest World Malaria Report here . We encourage you to join the conversation on Twitter at @CentreHealthSec. You can follow Dr Kelley on @JFKWPRO.

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What is the current status of the malaria epidemic? A conversation with Dr James Kelley from WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific is an episode from Contain This: The Latest in Global Health Security by Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

This episode is 34:56 long.

This episode was published on Jun 8, 2023.

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