Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

• Freya Fowkes

  Professor

Research Overview

Malaria elimination will save millions of lives over a generation and deliver regional economic benefits worth billions of dollars as well as strengthening Australia’s biosecurity. The epidemiology of malaria is highly heterogeneous, with Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and zoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi infections being co‐endemic and transmitted by 19 major vector species, and focused in hard‐to‐reach areas and populations.1 In response to emerging multidrug‐resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion, the World Health Organization (WHO) has prioritised malaria elimination in the Asia–Pacific region by 2030.