About
In 2021, as COVID-19 travel restrictions were being relaxed, we set out to develop a methodology for adaptive management of malaria in Uganda, called adaptive malaria control. At the same time, we started working with the Bioko Island Malaria Elimination Program (BIMEP) on adaptive vector control. The two projects required different approaches due to the vast differences the size of the management tasks: the population of BIMEP is around 300 thousand people, and Uganda has approximately 49 million people. The management tasks facing each one of the 146 districts managed by Uganda’s National Malaria Control Division is similar to the tasks faced by BIMEP. While Uganda must contend with sub-national tailoring, BIMEP is interested in micro-stratification.
The Uganda prototype for Adaptive Malaria Control has been a collaboration between between the National Malaria Control Division (NMCD) and Department of Health Information (DHI) of Uganda’s Ministry of Health, a Uganda-based team of analysts called RAMP-Uganda working from Pilgrim Africa, and a team of analysts called RAMP-UW at the University of Washington. The team members are:
Jimmy Opigo, Assistant Commissioner of the National Malaria Control Division
Paul Mbaka, Head, Division of Health Information
Dr. Rek John, Pilgrim Africa, Kampala, Uganda who heads the RAMP-Uganda team.
Members of RAMP-Uganda based at Pilgrim Africa include:
Catherine Maiteki, Pilgrim Africa, Kampala, Uganda
Jaffer Okiring, PhD, malaria epidemiologist and analyst
Tom Eganyu
Dr. Rutayisire Meddy
Juliet Nsumba Nakakawa, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Makerere University Department of Mathematics, School of Physical Sciences, College of Natural Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Doreen Mbabazi Ssebuliba, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda
Professor David L Smith, who heads the RAMP-UW team and who was PI on the grants:
Members of the RAMP-UW Team:
Dianna Hergott, PhD
Austin Carter