Malaria Research U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Scrubbing In, brought to you by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, takes you around Navy Medicine to show who we are and what we do. In this episode, host Paul Ross travels to the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) in Silver Spring, Maryland to learn how the Infectious Disease Directorate harvests mosquitos for malaria research. (Produced by U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Visual Information Directorate, published March 16, 2015)

Each year there are more than 200 million new cases of malaria, a preventable and treatable disease. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World malaria report 2019, there were no global gains in reducing new infections between 2014 and 2018, and nearly as many people died from malaria in 2018 as in the previous year.

TDR’s malaria research focuses on helping low- and middle-income countries scale up their efforts to diagnose and treat malaria and prevent illness and deaths among the most vulnerable, including pregnant women and children. Researchers in African countries are receiving implementation research support and training to help them improve malaria control.

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