New Publication: The household economic burden of human-only and zoonotic malaria, compared to other causes of acute febrile illness in Indonesia

Our team is please to share the recent publication of our work in BMJ Global Health: The household economic burden of human-only and zoonotic malaria, compared to other causes of acute febrile illness in Indonesia.

This study investigated the household costs and productivity losses of zoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi malaria, human-only malaria and other causes of febrile illness in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia. This study was conducted as part of the broader ZOOMAL study, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

The paper is part of Patrick Abraham’s PhD thesis, and was supervised by A/Prof Angela Devine, as well as Prof Matthew Grigg, from Menzies School of Health Research. The team is extremely grateful to all our Indonesian collaborators who made this work possible. We hope that this work demonstrates the true burden of malarial illness in Indonesia, and the work continues to inform malaria and agricultural decision making in the region.