Malaria Advisory Group
The Malaria Advisory Group (MAG) is responsible for advising the Trustees of the
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) how monies raised should be spent.
The MAG is made up of some of the world's leading malaria experts. The group has
extensive experience both in the strategies used to combat malaria and in the implementation
of malaria programmes.
All spending decisions will be detailed on this website ensuring complete transparency
of our actions.
Malaria Advisory Group members
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Professor Brian Greenwood
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & Director, Gates Malaria Partnership
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Dr Sylvia Meek
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Technical Director, Malaria Consortium
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Professor Bob Snow
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Head of Public Health Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Programme,
Kenya
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Dr Don de Savigny
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Swiss Tropical Institute, Basle & Head of Research, Essential Health Interventions
Project, Tanzania
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Dr Ayo Palmer
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Director, Centre For Innovation Against Malaria, The Gambia
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Professor Nick White
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Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford and at Mahidol University
in Thailand
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Dr Abdisalan Mohamed Noor
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Research Training Fellow at the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group in Kenya
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Dr. Julie Makani
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Julie Makani is a lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
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The Group will liaise with a broad array of individuals and organisations as it
formulates advice on how the money raised should be spent.
Professor Brian Greenwood
Brian is the Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where
he coordinates a programme of research on malaria. He is the Director of the
Gates Malaria Partnership.
Brian has over 30 years experience in the malaria field in both research and programme
implementation and is regarded as one of the world's leading malariologists. He
has lived and worked in West Africa for most of this time. Brian will Chair the
Malaria Advisory Group.
Dr. Sylvia Meek
Sylvia is an internationally recognised advisor with over 28 years experience working
on malaria and other vector-borne disease control.
She is the Technical Director of the Malaria Consortium, a non-governmental organisation working
at country, regional and international level, supporting the control of malaria
and other communicable diseases. Sylvia’s work includes technical advice, especially
on programme design, management and evaluation and on antimalarial treatment policy,
and implementation oversight to all Malaria Consortium projects and activities.
Sylvia is on the Roll Back Malaria
(RBM) Working Group
on Case Management.
Professor Bob Snow
Bob Snow has worked in Africa for the last 21 years. He is Professor of
Tropical Public Health at the University of Oxford and head
of the Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group at the Kenyan Medical Research
Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.
His work began with the first clinical trials of Insecticide-treated bed nets in
The Gambia and has developed into a large programme of work in Kenya on the public
health burden of malaria in Africa and understanding ways in which this can be reduced
through scientifically proven methods of intervention, effective partnerships with
African governments and appropriate financing.
He has published over 200 articles on malaria, is a technical advisor to the Kenyan
Government and sits on a number of international malaria advisory panels. He is
supported by the Wellcome Trust (UK) and lives in Nairobi with his wife and three
children.
Dr Ayo Palmer
Ayo is an experienced paediatrician and is Director of the
Centre For Innovation Against Malaria (CIAM) in The Gambia.
CIAM is one of four
Gates Malaria Training Centres in sub-Saharan Africa focussing on developing
innovative approaches for the control of malaria. As a public health practitioner
she has extensive experience working at all levels of the health care system in
The Gambia including working with UNICEF and community based organisations to set
up sustainable health programmes. Ayo’s work includes providing technical advice
to the Ministry of Health and the National Malaria Control Programme especially
on technical programme design, management and evaluation and on antimalarial treatment
policy.
She has many years experience of programme development and the monitoring and evaluation
of projects to ensure malaria interventions are practical, workable and accessible
to households.
Professor Nick White
Nick has worked in Thailand since 1981 and has been Director of the
Wellcome Trust – Mahidol – Oxford Tropical Medicine
Research Programme since 1986. In 1990 he founded the
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam and
has been overall Chairman of the Oxford University – Wellcome Trust South-east
Asian Units since then. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician at the
John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Nick's diverse interests include the epidemiology, pathophysiology and management
of uncomplicated and severe malaria, meliodosis, enteric fever, tetanus, dengue
haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis and tuberculosis. His particular interests
at present include the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria and the prevention
of antimalarial drug resistance using artemisinin-based combinations, He is a Wellcome Trust Principal
Research Fellow, a Fellow of the
Academy of Medical Sciences and was recently awarded the Order of the British
Empire for his research work on tropical illnesses in South-east Asia.
Dr Abdisalan Mohamed Noor
Dr Noor joined the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group (MPHEG)/Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi in 2000 and was instrumental in developing a national spatial infrastructure of health services in Kenya. He is a member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group of the Division of Malaria Control, Ministry of Health, Kenya and currently leads malaria field trials work in Somalia.
He completed his Ph.D. on spatial models of access to and use of government health services in Kenya in 2005 with the Open University, UK, in collaboration with the MPHEG and the University of Oxford. He has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship investigating the spatial and socio-economic determinants of access to and use of health interventions among rural African communities, particularly understanding and modeling the dynamics of insecticide treated net uptake.
Abdisalan graduated with a BSc from the University of Nairobi, Department of Geospatial & Space Technology in 1999. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of Nairobi and has close links with several other Government of Kenya institutions. He is also an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.
Dr. Julie Makani
Julie Makani is a lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (
MUHAS), which is the main clinical, academic and research centre in Tanzania.
Her two related areas of specialism are malaria and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), a blood disorder. SCD confers protection against the malaria infection. Haematology (the study of blood) and blood transfusion are her major areas of study. With support from the KEMRI-Wellcome programme she received a Training fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to establish a systematic framework for comprehensive research and care, with one of the largest cohorts of SCD patients in Africa. Due to its molecular basis, SCD presents great opportunities for integrating clinical, epidemiological, patho-physiological and genetic research.
MUHAS is a collaborative site for the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) Grand Challenges Programme which attempts to combine human genome technologies with large-scale epidemiological studies.
She is a member of Multilateral initiative on Malaria (MIM) Secretariat Advisory Committee and of the Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom, and holds an appointment as Clinical Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.