Following the recommendations of the Wellcome Trust visiting panel in Moshi early in 2013, the focus of the first postdoctoral awards has been on supporting successful MCDC PhD students to gain experience away from their home institution and/or gain new skills that will help them in developing a more substantial research proposal. Eleven postdoctoral awards have been made and are underway.
The successful fellows and their projects are listed below:
Gifty Antwi - Discrepancies between information given during antenatal care by staff and use of the information by pregnant women in Ghana
Bilali Kabula - Relationship between Pyrethroid Resistance and Plasmodium Falciparum infectivity in Anopheles gambiae population
Nyanyiwe Mbeye - Research Leadership and capacity building in evidence-based health care
Jacklin Mosha - Assessment of malaria transmission hotspots for targeted malaria control, using school surveys, in a low-moderate transmission setting in Magu District, Mwanza
Joaniter Nankabirwa - Plasmodium infections among schoolchildren and members of their households following intermittent preventive treatment in a high malaria transmission setting in Uganda
Magatte Ndiaye - Temporal dynamics of molecular markers of antimalarial drug resistance in P. falciparum parasite populations in Senegal using routinely collected malaria rapid diagnostic tests
Youssoupha Ndiaye - An innovative reporting system for malaria morbidity monitoring in South Senegal: a pilot study in the region of Sédhiou
Harold Ocholla - Baseline genomic and immunological assessment of malaria transmission before an enhanced malaria control program in western Kenya
Badara Samb - Distribution and mechanisms of insecticide resistance in Anopheles funestus populations from Senegal
Sanie Sesay - Establishing a hybrid Easy Access Group based geospatial M&E sampling approach to monitor malaria control progress in Southern Malawi: The GALACTIC study
Roger Tine - Assessing the safety of low dose primaquine in adult patients in Senegal and mapping of G6PD deficiency at the demographic surveillance site of Keur Socé: baseline studies to guide the implementation of low dose primaquine in Senegal
