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Socioeconomic and Environmental Drivers of Pediatric Malaria

March 30, 2026
Ashley Wade is a medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is mentored by Ross Boyce, MD, MSc. In many parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa, malaria is still one of the main reasons children are hospitalized. In a recent study, Wade and Annika Gunderson, a UNC Epidemiology...

Exploring the Link Between Gold Mining and Malaria in Tanzania

March 11, 2026
Claudia Gaither is a PhD student in Epidemiology studying at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, mentored by Michael Emch, PhD. At the 4th Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium, Gaither talked about the relationship between malaria prevalence and proximity to mineral processing pits in northwestern Tanzania, where gold mining...

Assefa, Parr Review a Novel Strategy for Eliminating Malaria, Published in The Lancet

November 15, 2023
Post-doctoral fellow Ashenafi Assefa, PhD, and Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in infectious diseases, researchers with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) working in the IDEEL (the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology) Lab assess the pros and cons of a new strategy to simplify malaria...

Boyce awarded Doris Duke funding for malaria study in Uganda

August 17, 2021
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal entitled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda,” which aims at reducing the incidence of malaria among infants and young children in rural Uganda....