Conversations in Development: A World Free of Malaria

By Ellen Wilson, November 25, 2013

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Malaria is one of the world’s most pressing health problems. It kills hundreds of thousands of people per year, most of them young African children, and infects many more. Many children who survive bouts of the disease suffer permanent mental and physical impairments. While deaths from malaria have dropped by more than 25% globally since 2000, new tools are needed to fight emerging drug and insecticide resistance and ensure goals of elimination and eradication can be met. Ashley Birkett, Director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), recently sat down with BurnessGlobal’s Ellen Wilson to discuss MVI’s role in vaccine development and the malaria-free future he envisions.