The role of improved housing in the African malaria recession
Lead Research Organisation:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Department Name: Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Abstract
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease, mainly confined to the tropics. Today, malaria control is at a pivotal juncture. The disease remains a major source of human illness and death, killing around 600,000 people annually. Yet the past fifteen years have seen great advances in controlling malaria, with a third reduction in the annual incidence of cases. These reductions have been mainly achieved by distributing chemically-treated bed nets for people to sleep beneath and by spraying houses with chemicals that kill mosquitoes. However, mosquitoes have become resistant to the chemicals used, meaning that additional tools are urgently needed to avoid losing the progress made.
Since malaria is a 'disease of poverty', strongly influenced by its environment, there is heightened interest in using broader, non-chemical approaches for its control, by working with sectors outside health such as agriculture, water and sanitation and urban planning. This is especially pertinent as we approach the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals for international development later in 2015. The research proposed here will specifically investigate how one such approach - improving housing - can help to reduce malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Good housing, traditionally a key pillar of public health, remains underexploited in malaria control. Yet most bites by malaria mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa are received indoors at night, so the home can be a risky place. Historically, improved living conditions and house screening contributed to malaria elimination in Europe and the USA. Today, studies have shown that well-built housing can help to protect against malaria in many African settings. However, house design has been largely neglected as a potential malaria control tool, due to reliance on other interventions.
Today, unprecedented population expansion and socioeconomic development in sub-Saharan Africa presents an unrivalled opportunity to build healthy homes. The continent's population is projected to double between 2010 and 2040 to nearly two billion and may surpass three billion by 2070, with 144 million new houses needed by 2030 in rural areas alone. Housing quality is also transforming across much of the continent, as incomes increase. This economic and cultural revolution represents an exceptional opportunity for malaria control.
The aim of this fellowship is to investigate the potential contribution of better housing to malaria control in Africa. This will be achieved by addressing three questions:
i) How is malaria associated with housing quality in different parts of sub-Saharan Africa?
ii) To what extent has housing improved in Africa, and how does this change relate to trends in malaria endemicity, 2000-2015?
iii) What is the potential impact of using better housing as an intervention against malaria?
To answer these questions, state-of-the-art modelling approaches will be used (1) to assess the association between house design and malaria in multiple African countries, (2) to quantify how housing improved in Africa between 2000 and 2015, (3) to understand how trends in malaria between 2000 and 2015 were related to changes in housing and (4) to estimate the total number of malaria cases in Africa that may be averted by ongoing housing improvements. This study will exploit the world's largest collection of malaria surveys, the Malaria Atlas Project, together with nearly 200 demographic and health surveys from over 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
In summary, this study will evaluate the potential of building better homes to impact on malaria in Africa. The outcomes of this research will provide critical information to guide research and policy decisions relating to sustainable malaria control, at a pivotal time.
Since malaria is a 'disease of poverty', strongly influenced by its environment, there is heightened interest in using broader, non-chemical approaches for its control, by working with sectors outside health such as agriculture, water and sanitation and urban planning. This is especially pertinent as we approach the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals for international development later in 2015. The research proposed here will specifically investigate how one such approach - improving housing - can help to reduce malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Good housing, traditionally a key pillar of public health, remains underexploited in malaria control. Yet most bites by malaria mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa are received indoors at night, so the home can be a risky place. Historically, improved living conditions and house screening contributed to malaria elimination in Europe and the USA. Today, studies have shown that well-built housing can help to protect against malaria in many African settings. However, house design has been largely neglected as a potential malaria control tool, due to reliance on other interventions.
Today, unprecedented population expansion and socioeconomic development in sub-Saharan Africa presents an unrivalled opportunity to build healthy homes. The continent's population is projected to double between 2010 and 2040 to nearly two billion and may surpass three billion by 2070, with 144 million new houses needed by 2030 in rural areas alone. Housing quality is also transforming across much of the continent, as incomes increase. This economic and cultural revolution represents an exceptional opportunity for malaria control.
The aim of this fellowship is to investigate the potential contribution of better housing to malaria control in Africa. This will be achieved by addressing three questions:
i) How is malaria associated with housing quality in different parts of sub-Saharan Africa?
ii) To what extent has housing improved in Africa, and how does this change relate to trends in malaria endemicity, 2000-2015?
iii) What is the potential impact of using better housing as an intervention against malaria?
To answer these questions, state-of-the-art modelling approaches will be used (1) to assess the association between house design and malaria in multiple African countries, (2) to quantify how housing improved in Africa between 2000 and 2015, (3) to understand how trends in malaria between 2000 and 2015 were related to changes in housing and (4) to estimate the total number of malaria cases in Africa that may be averted by ongoing housing improvements. This study will exploit the world's largest collection of malaria surveys, the Malaria Atlas Project, together with nearly 200 demographic and health surveys from over 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
In summary, this study will evaluate the potential of building better homes to impact on malaria in Africa. The outcomes of this research will provide critical information to guide research and policy decisions relating to sustainable malaria control, at a pivotal time.
Technical Summary
BACKGROUND: Since most malaria transmission occurs indoors in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), housing quality is an important determinant of malaria risk, through its effect on house entry by mosquitoes. Unprecedented population expansion and rapid socioeconomic development in SSA presents an unrivalled opportunity to advance malaria control and elimination by building healthy homes.
AIM: To investigate the role of improved housing in the African malaria recession.
METHODS: Two principal data sources will be used: (i) the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) programs and (ii) the Repository of Open Access Data of the Malaria Atlas Project (ROAD-MAP II). First, the association between house quality and prevalence of malaria in children will be examined (a) in Upper River Region, The Gambia, using a 2010 parasitological survey of c3800 children and remotely-sensed imagery to classify house type and (b) in 22 countries in SSA, by applying multilevel modelling to MIS and DHS surveys. Second, changes in housing quality at the district level across SSA, 2000-2015, will be estimated by fitting housing data from georeferenced DHS/MIS/MICS surveys within a multilevel model using a Bayesian framework. Third, the relationship between housing improvements and changes in malaria endemicity in SSA, 2000-2015, will be modelled at three spatial scales using data from Objective 2 and ROAD-MAP-II. Fourth, the total number of malaria cases averted in SSA in 2015 due to housing improvements during 2000-2015 will be estimated using a spatiotemporal model and counterfactual framework.
SUMMARY: The application of geospatial modelling to large existing datasets will generate novel evidence on the relationship between housing and malaria and the impact of housing improvements on malaria endemicity, yielding critical and timely policy recommendations for sustainable malaria control.
AIM: To investigate the role of improved housing in the African malaria recession.
METHODS: Two principal data sources will be used: (i) the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) programs and (ii) the Repository of Open Access Data of the Malaria Atlas Project (ROAD-MAP II). First, the association between house quality and prevalence of malaria in children will be examined (a) in Upper River Region, The Gambia, using a 2010 parasitological survey of c3800 children and remotely-sensed imagery to classify house type and (b) in 22 countries in SSA, by applying multilevel modelling to MIS and DHS surveys. Second, changes in housing quality at the district level across SSA, 2000-2015, will be estimated by fitting housing data from georeferenced DHS/MIS/MICS surveys within a multilevel model using a Bayesian framework. Third, the relationship between housing improvements and changes in malaria endemicity in SSA, 2000-2015, will be modelled at three spatial scales using data from Objective 2 and ROAD-MAP-II. Fourth, the total number of malaria cases averted in SSA in 2015 due to housing improvements during 2000-2015 will be estimated using a spatiotemporal model and counterfactual framework.
SUMMARY: The application of geospatial modelling to large existing datasets will generate novel evidence on the relationship between housing and malaria and the impact of housing improvements on malaria endemicity, yielding critical and timely policy recommendations for sustainable malaria control.
Planned Impact
The proposed research will examine the potential for better housing to control malaria, helping to address the urgent need for vector control tools beyond long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS). Immediate beneficiaries will be academics, policy-makers, malaria control programmes and non-governmental organisations. The ultimate beneficiaries will be the two billion people living at risk of malaria worldwide.
Academics within public health will benefit through the generation of new data on changes in housing quality in Africa, the assembly of new evidence on housing and malaria and the application of tailored statistical approaches to large survey datasets and Malaria Atlas Project data (see Academic Beneficiaries). The research will be of particular benefit to epidemiologists conducting field studies of housing as a malaria intervention, by generating macro-level data to (a) gauge the potential impact of housing in different settings and (b) guide the design of future field studies. Other beneficiaries will include public health entomologists seeking supplementary tools for malaria vector control; malaria elimination specialists seeking long-term, sustainable interventions; malariologists interested in understanding of the causes of the African malaria recession; and spatial epidemiologists and health geographers studying the effects of the environment on health. The use of large demographic and health survey datasets will benefit methodologists who work with similar data to study risk factors for health outcomes. Exploitation of the Malaria Atlas Project will make constructive use of this valuable resource. The research will exploit the UK Medical Research Council's strategic investments in health research in The Gambia (see letter). Academic beneficiaries outside the health sphere will include remote-sensing experts and urban geographers, who will benefit from the application of remotely-sensed data and the analysis of housing variables within large survey datasets; architects working on housing and health; and cross-disciplinary research teams from social science, public health and development economics, specialising the relationship between development and health.
Policy-makers and national malaria control programmes (NMCPs) will benefit in three ways. First, given that LLINs and IRS are increasingly threatened by insecticide resistance, there is an urgent need to evaluate supplementary methods of vector control, such as housing. Second, the proposed research will generate new evidence on multisectoral malaria control, with which to guide programme design and to support advocacy. Third, if housing shows potential as a sustainable intervention, the long-term costs of malaria control and elimination may be reduced. Tangible, short-term benefits for policy-makers and NMCPs will be: (a) estimations of the potential impact of housing improvements, (b) identification of the malaria transmission settings where housing is likely to be more and less effective and (c) generation of data and maps for advocating for multisectoral (housing-health) malaria control. In turn, the development and housing sectors will benefit from important new data documenting changes in housing quality at the district level in Africa since 2000 and from data to promote advocacy for better housing (the 2013 UNDP Multisectoral Action framework for Malaria states that 'encouraging better housing is a social objective, not simply a malaria control action'). Should housing improvements be more systematically implemented as part of the broader development and health agenda, the ultimate beneficiaries will be the populations of malaria-endemic countries, whose quality of life will improve through better health and access to decent housing.
Academics within public health will benefit through the generation of new data on changes in housing quality in Africa, the assembly of new evidence on housing and malaria and the application of tailored statistical approaches to large survey datasets and Malaria Atlas Project data (see Academic Beneficiaries). The research will be of particular benefit to epidemiologists conducting field studies of housing as a malaria intervention, by generating macro-level data to (a) gauge the potential impact of housing in different settings and (b) guide the design of future field studies. Other beneficiaries will include public health entomologists seeking supplementary tools for malaria vector control; malaria elimination specialists seeking long-term, sustainable interventions; malariologists interested in understanding of the causes of the African malaria recession; and spatial epidemiologists and health geographers studying the effects of the environment on health. The use of large demographic and health survey datasets will benefit methodologists who work with similar data to study risk factors for health outcomes. Exploitation of the Malaria Atlas Project will make constructive use of this valuable resource. The research will exploit the UK Medical Research Council's strategic investments in health research in The Gambia (see letter). Academic beneficiaries outside the health sphere will include remote-sensing experts and urban geographers, who will benefit from the application of remotely-sensed data and the analysis of housing variables within large survey datasets; architects working on housing and health; and cross-disciplinary research teams from social science, public health and development economics, specialising the relationship between development and health.
Policy-makers and national malaria control programmes (NMCPs) will benefit in three ways. First, given that LLINs and IRS are increasingly threatened by insecticide resistance, there is an urgent need to evaluate supplementary methods of vector control, such as housing. Second, the proposed research will generate new evidence on multisectoral malaria control, with which to guide programme design and to support advocacy. Third, if housing shows potential as a sustainable intervention, the long-term costs of malaria control and elimination may be reduced. Tangible, short-term benefits for policy-makers and NMCPs will be: (a) estimations of the potential impact of housing improvements, (b) identification of the malaria transmission settings where housing is likely to be more and less effective and (c) generation of data and maps for advocating for multisectoral (housing-health) malaria control. In turn, the development and housing sectors will benefit from important new data documenting changes in housing quality at the district level in Africa since 2000 and from data to promote advocacy for better housing (the 2013 UNDP Multisectoral Action framework for Malaria states that 'encouraging better housing is a social objective, not simply a malaria control action'). Should housing improvements be more systematically implemented as part of the broader development and health agenda, the ultimate beneficiaries will be the populations of malaria-endemic countries, whose quality of life will improve through better health and access to decent housing.
Organisations
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Collaboration)
- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- Roll Back Malaria (Collaboration)
- University of Colorado Boulder (Collaboration)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Collaboration)
- University of California, San Francisco (Collaboration)
- Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Collaboration)
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Collaboration)
- OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Ifakara Health Institute (Collaboration)
- Catholic Relief Services (Collaboration)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
Lucy Tusting (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Jones RT
(2018)
The impact of industrial activities on vector-borne disease transmission.
in Acta tropica
Williams YA
(2018)
Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox for Malaria Elimination: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
in Advances in parasitology
Tusting LS
(2021)
Assessing the health benefits of development interventions.
in BMJ global health
Sartorius Benn
(2021)
Prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infections of children in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-18: a geospatial analysis
in LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH
Tusting Lucy S.
(2020)
Environmental temperature and growth faltering in African children: a cross-sectional study
in LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH
Sadoine ML
(2018)
The associations between malaria, interventions, and the environment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
in Malaria journal
Okiring J
(2019)
Household and maternal risk factors for malaria in pregnancy in a highly endemic area of Uganda: a prospective cohort study.
in Malaria journal
Tusting LS
(2019)
Mapping changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015.
in Nature
Bendixen M
(2021)
Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward
in One Earth
Lindsay SW
(2021)
Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Musiime AK
(2022)
House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study.
in PLOS global public health
Tusting LS
(2020)
Housing and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis.
in PLoS medicine
Von Seidlein L
(2019)
Knowledge gaps in the construction of rural healthy homes: A research agenda for improved low-cost housing in hot-humid Africa.
in PLoS medicine
Seelig F
(2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic should not derail global vector control efforts
in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Lindsay SW
(2019)
Reduced mosquito survival in metal-roof houses may contribute to a decline in malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
in Scientific reports
Jones RT
(2020)
The Role of the Private Sector in Supporting Malaria Control in Resource Development Settings.
in The Journal of infectious diseases
Sartorius B
(2021)
Prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infections of children in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-18: a geospatial analysis.
in The Lancet. Global health
Chan K
(2022)
Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus non-rice-growing villages in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
in The Lancet. Planetary health
Rek JC
(2018)
Rapid improvements to rural Ugandan housing and their association with malaria from intense to reduced transmission: a cohort study.
in The Lancet. Planetary health
Tusting LS
(2020)
Environmental temperature and growth faltering in African children: a cross-sectional study.
in The Lancet. Planetary health
Mshamu S
(2020)
Old age is associated with decreased wealth in rural villages in Mtwara, Tanzania: findings from a cross-sectional survey.
in Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Description | This research has helped to shape global policy for the control of malaria. By demonstrating the importance of poor quality housing as a risk factor for malaria in Uganda and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, this has informed the World Health Organization's Malaria Vector Control Guidelines Development, enabling house screening to be given a conditional recommendation by WHO. As a direct output of this fellowship, we published the first maps of changes in housing across sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015. These findings demonstrated the huge potential for changes in housing to impact health and have helped to shape the World Health Organization's policy on urban malaria, presented in the WHO and UN-Habitat Global framework for the response to malaria in urban areas (2022). |
Exploitation Route | House screening can now be adopted by national health programmes in malaria endemic countries, as a malaria control strategy recommended by WHO. In urban areas, house screening is encouraged for malaria control by WHO. |
Sectors | Construction Healthcare |
URL | https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789240061781 |
Description | This research has helped to shape global policy for the control of malaria. By demonstrating the importance of poor quality housing as a risk factor for malaria in Uganda and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, this has informed the World Health Organization's Malaria Vector Control Guidelines Development, enabling house screening to be given a conditional recommendation by WHO. As a direct output of this fellowship, we published the first maps of changes in housing across sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015. These findings demonstrated the huge potential for changes in housing to impact health and have helped to shape the World Health Organization's policy on urban malaria, presented in the WHO and UN-Habitat Global framework for the response to malaria in urban areas (2022). |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Construction,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Policy & public services |
Description | Influencing policy guidelines (WHO Global Vector Control Reponse) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | The WHO Global Vector Control Response is the global plan for improving disease vector control 2017-2030. It will be presented to the World Health Assembly in May 2017 for approval. Within the GVCR, improving housing is strongly advocated as an inter-sectoral approach to VBD control. This is a landmark document since previously housing has not been considered important for malaria control policy. |
URL | http://www.who.int/malaria/global-vector-control-response/en/ |
Description | Influencing policy guidelines (WHO guidance on housing and health) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Influencing policy guidelines (WHO guidance on malaria vector control) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Multisectoral Working Group, Roll Back Malaria |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Membership of Multisectoral Working Group on malaria under the umbrella of WHO and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, working to improve malaria control through intersectoral collaboration |
Description | New Urban Agenda |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | Habitat III was a UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development held in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador. The meeting concluded with the adoption or the New Urban Agenda, which links with Sustainable Development Goal 11 to set global standards in sustainable urban development. Due to awareness and evidence generated through the work of myself and others on housing and malaria, vector-borne disease was included for the first time in the New Urban Agenda. |
URL | http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/10/newurbanagenda/ |
Description | WHO Global framework for the response to malaria in urban areas |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | New policy guidance for the control of malaria in urban areas, disseminated widely across Ministries of Health in SSA and Asia. |
URL | https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240061781 |
Description | WHO Guidelines Development Group on malaria vector control |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Membership of the WHO Guidelines Development Group on malaria vector control, including discussion of housing improvements for malaria control. This will update the global guidelines for malaria control, to be released in 2021. |
URL | https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/310862/9789241550499-eng.pdf |
Description | Risk Assessment of Mosquito-borne Diseases in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Based on Deep Learning and Remote Sensing |
Amount | 19,861,517Â kr. (DKK) |
Funding ID | 0069116 |
Organisation | Novo Nordisk Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | Denmark |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 12/2026 |
Title | Demographic and Health Survey processing |
Description | Collaboration on Github site providing code for downloading and handling DHS health data |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This Github site provides code that has contributed to a number of publications, detailed here: https://github.com/harry-gibson/DHS-Data-Extractions/tree/main/Building_Quality_And_Child_Health |
URL | https://github.com/harry-gibson/DHS-Data-Extractions/tree/main/Building_Quality_And_Child_Health |
Title | Housing in Africa |
Description | Gridded data on prevalence of improved housing in sub-Saharan Africa in 2000 and 2015 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These data have been used in other outputs, such as https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30398-3/fulltext |
URL | https://malariaatlas.org/research-project/housing_in_africa/ |
Description | Building Out Vector Borne Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (BOVA) Network |
Organisation | Durham University |
Department | School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am co-director of the BOVA Network, funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund. I conceived of the idea and co-wrote the initial proposal. BOVA is an interdisciplinary network focusing on preventing vector-borne diseases through improving the built environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | My partners at Durham University manage the running of the network. The network directors are Prof Steve Lindsay (Durham University) and PRof Mike Davies (UCL). |
Impact | Annual Meeting in London, March 2018 in partnership with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 8 pump-priming projects valuing £100k funded, to conduct basic research on housing and vector-borne disease in Africa. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Building Out Vector Borne Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (BOVA) Network |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am co-director of the BOVA Network, funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund. I conceived of the idea and co-wrote the initial proposal. BOVA is an interdisciplinary network focusing on preventing vector-borne diseases through improving the built environment. |
Collaborator Contribution | My partners at Durham University manage the running of the network. The network directors are Prof Steve Lindsay (Durham University) and PRof Mike Davies (UCL). |
Impact | Annual Meeting in London, March 2018 in partnership with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 8 pump-priming projects valuing £100k funded, to conduct basic research on housing and vector-borne disease in Africa. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Expert Group: Roll Back Malaria Housing and Malaria Work Stream |
Organisation | Roll Back Malaria |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The Vector-Borne Diseases and the Built Environment Work Stream of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership's Vector Control Working Group aims to bring together the housing and malaria communities and establish a network of interested parties from academia, national governments, WHO and other policy makers, to support basic and applied research and develop pathways to scale-up housing interventions against malaria and other vector-borne diseases through inter-sectoral collaboration. There are currently 75 members. I was a founding member of this Work Stream in 2014 and in November 2016 was made Co-Chair, providing leadership and convening the annual meeting in Geneva, the most recent of which was held in February 2017. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provide administrative and financial support for the hosting and maintenance of the Work Stream. |
Impact | Policy documents: Vector-borne disease included in the UN-Habitat New Urban Agenda (2017) Housing included in the WHO Global Vector Control Response (2017) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Malaria Journal Thematic Series on Housing and Malaria |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Department | Tropical Epidemiology Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am guest editor for a Malaria Journal thematic series on housing and malaria, with two co-editors at LSHTM. This series collates articles that contribute to the evidence base on approaches for improving housing to reduce domestic malaria transmission. |
Collaborator Contribution | Co-editing of the series. |
Impact | Peer-reviewed publications: Tusting LS, Willey B, Lines J (2016). Building malaria out: improving health in the home. Malaria J; 15: 320. Three papers edited and published within the series so far. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | PhD Supervision: MATAMAL Project, Evaluating the impact of ivermectin on malaria vectors |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Department | Malaria Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have taken on primary supervision of a PhD study being conducted in the Bijagós archipelago, Guinea-Bissau within a cluster-randomised controlled trial (MATAMAL). |
Collaborator Contribution | Set up and management of the wider MATAMAL trial, in which the PhD research is embedded. |
Impact | No outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | PhD Supervision: Rice and Malaria in Africa: Seeking Vector Control in Rice Cultivation Practices |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Department | Malaria Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This study was conducted by a PhD student funded by CGIAR. I am a co-supervisor of this PhD. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partners on this collaboration provided scientific input and funding support for the PhD. |
Impact | Chan K, Tusting LS, Bottomley C, Saito K, Djouaka R, Lines J. Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus non-rice-growing villages in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Planet Health. 2022 Mar;6(3):e257-e269. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00349-1. PMID: 35278391; PMCID: PMC8926871. Successful examination of PhD for Kallista Chan (October 2022). |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Policy development: WHO Global Response to Malaria in Urban Areas |
Organisation | World Health Organization (WHO) |
Department | Global Malaria Programme |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | I was one of two lead authors of this new WHO Framework. This directly leads from my Fellowship (control of malaria in relation to the built environment). |
Collaborator Contribution | WHO commissioned and managed the process of developing the Framework, led the global consultation, conducted final editing and launched the document (public launch is due 31st October 2022 on World Cities Day). |
Impact | "WHO Global Response to Malaria in Urban Areas" - to be launched 31st October 2022. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Policy development: WHO Guidelines Development Group for malaria vector control |
Organisation | World Health Organization (WHO) |
Department | Global Malaria Programme |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | I am a member of the WHO Guideline Development Group for malaria vector control. We meet at least annually to review evidence and make policy recommendations. |
Collaborator Contribution | WHO convenes the GDG and puts recommendations into action. |
Impact | Updated WHO malaria vector control guidelines (2021) |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Research Funding Proposal: Housing and health in humanitarian crises |
Organisation | Catholic Relief Services |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Joint application made for funding on health and housing in humanitarian crises in October 2020 |
Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to application |
Impact | Joint application for funding, which was not successful. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary, cutting across the health and humanitarian crises sectors. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Research Funding Proposal: Housing and health in humanitarian crises |
Organisation | Makerere University College of Health Sciences |
Country | Uganda |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint application made for funding on health and housing in humanitarian crises in October 2020 |
Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to application |
Impact | Joint application for funding, which was not successful. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary, cutting across the health and humanitarian crises sectors. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Research Funding Proposal: Housing and health in humanitarian crises |
Organisation | Oxford Brookes University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint application made for funding on health and housing in humanitarian crises in October 2020 |
Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to application |
Impact | Joint application for funding, which was not successful. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary, cutting across the health and humanitarian crises sectors. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Research Study: Deep Cities - Digital mapping of vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Organisation | Ifakara Health Institute |
Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This is a 5 year grant for the Novo Nordisk Foundation to use remote sensing and household data collection to develop a risk modelling framework to detect vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LSHTM is leading the epidemiology arm of this study (e.g. study design, writing protocols and SOPs, data collection and analysis). |
Collaborator Contribution | Royal Danish Academy is managing the study and providing expertise on housing and the built environment. Ifakara Health Institute are leading the entomology arm and designing and executing data collection. University of Copenhagen is leading the remote sensing and modelling arm and providing statistical oversight. |
Impact | Collaboration is multi-disciplinary working across epidemiology, entomology, architecture, urban development and deep learning. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Research Study: Deep Cities - Digital mapping of vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Organisation | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This is a 5 year grant for the Novo Nordisk Foundation to use remote sensing and household data collection to develop a risk modelling framework to detect vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LSHTM is leading the epidemiology arm of this study (e.g. study design, writing protocols and SOPs, data collection and analysis). |
Collaborator Contribution | Royal Danish Academy is managing the study and providing expertise on housing and the built environment. Ifakara Health Institute are leading the entomology arm and designing and executing data collection. University of Copenhagen is leading the remote sensing and modelling arm and providing statistical oversight. |
Impact | Collaboration is multi-disciplinary working across epidemiology, entomology, architecture, urban development and deep learning. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Research Study: Deep Cities - Digital mapping of vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This is a 5 year grant for the Novo Nordisk Foundation to use remote sensing and household data collection to develop a risk modelling framework to detect vector-borne disease risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LSHTM is leading the epidemiology arm of this study (e.g. study design, writing protocols and SOPs, data collection and analysis). |
Collaborator Contribution | Royal Danish Academy is managing the study and providing expertise on housing and the built environment. Ifakara Health Institute are leading the entomology arm and designing and executing data collection. University of Copenhagen is leading the remote sensing and modelling arm and providing statistical oversight. |
Impact | Collaboration is multi-disciplinary working across epidemiology, entomology, architecture, urban development and deep learning. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Research Study: Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modelling of Malaria |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Department | Department of Clinical Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This collaboration continues my work with UCSF and LSHTM on the PRISM study (Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modelling of Malaria) in Uganda. I have supervised a Ugandan clinician to undertake his MSc long distance at LSHTM. I have mentored two other Ugandan scientists with publications arising, and a LSHTM MSc summer dissertation in Uganda. The focus of the research aligns with my Fellowship - understanding how house design affects the risk of malaria. |
Collaborator Contribution | My partners covered my travel costs to meetings, publication costs and additional data collection needed to support the analyses undertaken. Statistical support provided by LSHTM. |
Impact | Successful completion of 2 MScs. Peer-reviewed publications: 1. Okiring J, Olwoch P, Kakuru A, Okou J, Ochokoru H, Ochieng TA, Kajubi R, Kamya MR, Dorsey G, Tusting LS. Household and maternal risk factors for malaria in pregnancy in a highly endemic area of Uganda: a prospective cohort study. Malar J. 2019 Apr 23;18(1):144. doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2779-x. PMID: 31014336; PMCID: PMC6480498. 2. Rek JC, Alegana V, Arinaitwe E, Cameron E, Kamya MR, Katureebe A, Lindsay SW, Kilama M, Staedke SG, Todd J, Dorsey G, Tusting LS. Rapid improvements to rural Ugandan housing and their association with malaria from intense to reduced transmission: a cohort study. Lancet Planet Health. 2018 Feb;2(2):e83-e94. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30010-X. Epub 2018 Feb 9. PMID: 29615240; PMCID: PMC5887083. 3. Tusting LS, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Staedke SG, Kamya MR, Cano J, Bottomley C, Johnston D, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW, Lines J. Why is malaria associated with poverty? Findings from a cohort study in rural Uganda. Infect Dis Poverty. 2016 Aug 4;5(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s40249-016-0164-3. PMID: 27488674; PMCID: PMC4972958. 4. Tusting LS, Rek JC, Arinaitwe E, Staedke SG, Kamya MR, Bottomley C, Johnston D, Lines J, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW. Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Relation to Malaria Risk: A Comparison of Metrics in Rural Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Mar;94(3):650-8. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0554. Epub 2016 Jan 25. PMID: 26811432; PMCID: PMC4775903. 5. Tusting LS, Ippolito MM, Willey BA, Kleinschmidt I, Dorsey G, Gosling RD, Lindsay SW. The evidence for improving housing to reduce malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Malar J. 2015 Jun 9;14:209. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0724-1. PMID: 26055986; PMCID: PMC4460721. 6. Wanzirah H, Tusting LS, Arinaitwe E, Katureebe A, Maxwell K, Rek J, Bottomley C, Staedke SG, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW. Mind the gap: house structure and the risk of malaria in Uganda. PLoS One. 2015 Jan 30;10(1):e0117396. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117396. PMID: 25635688; PMCID: PMC4311957. 7. Musiime AK, Krezanoski PJ, Smith DL, Kilama M, Conrad MD, et al. (2022) House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study. PLOS Global Public Health 2(3): e0000063. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000063 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Research Study: Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modelling of Malaria |
Organisation | University of California, San Francisco |
Department | School of Medicine (UCSF) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This collaboration continues my work with UCSF and LSHTM on the PRISM study (Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modelling of Malaria) in Uganda. I have supervised a Ugandan clinician to undertake his MSc long distance at LSHTM. I have mentored two other Ugandan scientists with publications arising, and a LSHTM MSc summer dissertation in Uganda. The focus of the research aligns with my Fellowship - understanding how house design affects the risk of malaria. |
Collaborator Contribution | My partners covered my travel costs to meetings, publication costs and additional data collection needed to support the analyses undertaken. Statistical support provided by LSHTM. |
Impact | Successful completion of 2 MScs. Peer-reviewed publications: 1. Okiring J, Olwoch P, Kakuru A, Okou J, Ochokoru H, Ochieng TA, Kajubi R, Kamya MR, Dorsey G, Tusting LS. Household and maternal risk factors for malaria in pregnancy in a highly endemic area of Uganda: a prospective cohort study. Malar J. 2019 Apr 23;18(1):144. doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2779-x. PMID: 31014336; PMCID: PMC6480498. 2. Rek JC, Alegana V, Arinaitwe E, Cameron E, Kamya MR, Katureebe A, Lindsay SW, Kilama M, Staedke SG, Todd J, Dorsey G, Tusting LS. Rapid improvements to rural Ugandan housing and their association with malaria from intense to reduced transmission: a cohort study. Lancet Planet Health. 2018 Feb;2(2):e83-e94. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30010-X. Epub 2018 Feb 9. PMID: 29615240; PMCID: PMC5887083. 3. Tusting LS, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Staedke SG, Kamya MR, Cano J, Bottomley C, Johnston D, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW, Lines J. Why is malaria associated with poverty? Findings from a cohort study in rural Uganda. Infect Dis Poverty. 2016 Aug 4;5(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s40249-016-0164-3. PMID: 27488674; PMCID: PMC4972958. 4. Tusting LS, Rek JC, Arinaitwe E, Staedke SG, Kamya MR, Bottomley C, Johnston D, Lines J, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW. Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Relation to Malaria Risk: A Comparison of Metrics in Rural Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Mar;94(3):650-8. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0554. Epub 2016 Jan 25. PMID: 26811432; PMCID: PMC4775903. 5. Tusting LS, Ippolito MM, Willey BA, Kleinschmidt I, Dorsey G, Gosling RD, Lindsay SW. The evidence for improving housing to reduce malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Malar J. 2015 Jun 9;14:209. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0724-1. PMID: 26055986; PMCID: PMC4460721. 6. Wanzirah H, Tusting LS, Arinaitwe E, Katureebe A, Maxwell K, Rek J, Bottomley C, Staedke SG, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Lindsay SW. Mind the gap: house structure and the risk of malaria in Uganda. PLoS One. 2015 Jan 30;10(1):e0117396. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117396. PMID: 25635688; PMCID: PMC4311957. 7. Musiime AK, Krezanoski PJ, Smith DL, Kilama M, Conrad MD, et al. (2022) House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study. PLOS Global Public Health 2(3): e0000063. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000063 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Research Study: Sustainable development of global sand resources |
Organisation | University of Colorado Boulder |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Partnership on research on the sustainable development of global sand resources, including their use in housing |
Collaborator Contribution | Research contribution and data on housing in Africa. Joint seminar at LSHTM. |
Impact | Multi-disciplinary; geographical sciences and health. Bendixen, Mette, Iversen, Lars L., Best, Jim, Franks, Daniel M., Hackney, Christopher R., Latrubesse, Edgardo M., and Tusting, Lucy S. (2021). Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward. One Earth 4 (8) 1095-1111. h |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Steering Committee: Health Through Housing Coalition |
Organisation | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Department | Parasite Immunology Liverpool |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Served on Steering Committee for the Health Through Housing Coalition. |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and management of the HTHC. |
Impact | Creation of website and membership as a digital platform that aims to optimize the positive impact of housing on health through interdisciplinary synergies. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Steering Committee: LSHTM Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-climate-change-and-planetary-health Member of the Management Board for this WHO Collaborating Centre, The LSHTM Centre aims to fund and share research on climate and environmental health. |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Management Board contribute research on climate change and planetary health. Members are present at the COP climate conference. We run a postdoctoral fellowship program (LSHTM-Stanford University). The Centre was designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre in 2020. I contribute to the management of the CCCPH and I am contributing new teaching material (based on my fellowship) to a new MSc in Planetary Health at LSHTM, to commence September 2023. |
Impact | Tusting LS, Bradley J, Bhatt S, Gibson HS, Weiss DJ, Shenton FC, Lindsay SW, 2020. Environmental temperature and growth faltering in African children: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Planetary Health, 4: e116-e123. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Steering Committee: Uganda Housing Modification Study |
Organisation | Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) |
Country | Uganda |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am serving on the Steering Committee for this randomised control trial in Uganda. This directly relates to my Fellowship since the focus is on housing and malaria. |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and management of the UHMS trial. |
Impact | No outputs yet (trial is in year 2). |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Steering Committee: Uganda Housing Modification Study |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Department | Malaria Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am serving on the Steering Committee for this randomised control trial in Uganda. This directly relates to my Fellowship since the focus is on housing and malaria. |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and management of the UHMS trial. |
Impact | No outputs yet (trial is in year 2). |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Steering Committee: Uganda Housing Modification Study |
Organisation | University of California, San Francisco |
Department | School of Medicine (UCSF) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am serving on the Steering Committee for this randomised control trial in Uganda. This directly relates to my Fellowship since the focus is on housing and malaria. |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and management of the UHMS trial. |
Impact | No outputs yet (trial is in year 2). |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | BOVA Meeting presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | I presented my fellowship research at the BOVA Network annual meeting in London, March 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Co-chairing of working group meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Co-chaired a 3 hour meeting at the Roll Back Malaria Vector Control Working group. Representation from academia, ministries of health, policymakers, industry. Discussed policy recommendations relevant to housing and malaria. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Global health conference (ASTMH, Atlanta, USA, November 20016) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I presented the findings of the first objective of my fellowship, a multi-country analysis of housing and malaria risk in African children, as a poster. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.astmh.org/ASTMH/media/Documents/ASTMH-2016-Annual-Meeting-Abstract-Book.pdf |
Description | Guest editorial |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog post for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on housing and malaria |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://rstmh.org/news-blog/blog/housing-and-health-can-we-build-vector-borne-disease-out-of-africa |
Description | Housing and Malaria Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I organised a workshop at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on housing and health. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Interview and newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Interview on housing and malaria research for MESA Track (Malaria Eradication Strategic Alliance) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://mesamalaria.org/updates/housing-improvements-reduce-malaria-transmission-conversation-dr-lucy... |
Description | Invited presentation at international conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in a symposium on urban malaria transmission in Africa |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Online blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Blog piece on Cities & Health, for World Cities Day, that referenced my group's research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/features/cities-face-growing-climate-and-health-pro... |
Description | Online/social media presence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I have maintained a strong online presence through Google Scholar, Twitter and my institutional webpages, to raise awareness of the MRC funding for my research and to promote issues and outputs of broad public interest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
URL | https://twitter.com/lucytusting |
Description | Paper dissemination |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Social media and institutional coverage of a paper from my fellowship on housing and malaria. http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-22-modern-housing-may-cut-malaria-risk-sub-saharan-africa http://researchnews.plos.org/2017/02/21/fly-on-the-wall-modern-housing-and-malaria/ https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2017/modern_housing_malaria_risk.html http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/modernhousing/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-22-modern-housing-may-cut-malaria-risk-sub-saharan-africa |
Description | Policy meeting (Roll Back Malaria, Geneva) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research from fellowship on housing and malaria to an international audience of 250 people, which sparked numerous questions and interest in the potential of improved housing to reduce malaria within National Malaria Control Programmes. Attendance by members of national governments, UN-Habitat and WHO. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/architecture/working-groups/vcwg |
Description | Presentation to Oxford University Tropical Epidemiology Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | 30 people attended this seminar, which increased interest in housing and vector-borne disease. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation to Roll Back Malaria |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Talk to 250 people presenting the Nature paper just accepted that is one of the main outputs of my fellowship. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Press release |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press release for new publication on malaria and housing, released through the journal (PLOS Medicine) and University of Oxford. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://researchnews.plos.org/2017/02/21/fly-on-the-wall-modern-housing-and-malaria/ |
Description | Radio interview (Voice of America) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a radio interview with Steve Baragona, Voice of America on 17th February 2017, regarding recently published research on malaria and housing (from my fellowship). NB interview URL is not yet live. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | University seminar (Durham) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation on my research and my career to date to a group of 40 Biology undergraduate students at Durham University. There was a drinks reception afterwards during which I was asked many questions about doing a Masters and routes into academic research. The department reported increased interest in further study amongst these students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://community.dur.ac.uk/philip.stephens/SBBSSeminars.htm |
Description | Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the Global Shelter Cluster's "Health and Shelter Learning Day", to educate and discuss the potential for housing improvements to affect health in humanitarian crises. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |