Building a community of malaria modelers, analysts, and partners

Can safer radical cure also be more cost-effective? Explore how health economics is informing evidence-based malaria policy and accelerating Plasmodium vivax elimination in Indonesia. The radical cure of Plasmodium vivax requires treatment of the dormant liver stages with either primaquine or tafenoquine but is constrained by the risk of severe hemolysis in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. A revised case-management package was designed to support safe radical cure in Indonesia, and included G6PD screening, targeting high dose primaquine and early clinical review. This presentation will explore the usefulness of health economics within malaria policymaking, while presenting results of this cost-effectiveness study in Indonesia.

Ready to take your R skills further? This hands-on AMMnet Hackathon will guide you through building a fully interactive malaria dashboard using R Shiny and the modern bslib framework — from app structure and UI design to reactivity and web deployment. Over two focused hours, you'll work through the core building blocks of Shiny development: constructing user interfaces with input controls and outputs, implementing reactive expressions so your dashboard responds dynamically to user interactions, and deploying your finished app to the web via shinyapps.io. The session draws on realistic simulated malaria data modeled on real epidemiological patterns for Burkina Faso, giving you practical experience applying these tools in a malaria context. This session is designed for participants with advanced R experience. If you're already comfortable in R and ready to build something shareable and interactive, this is for you. Register to join us on 23 July and leave with a working dashboard — and the skills to build the next one. The session will be recorded and made publicly available to all AMMnet members via the AMMnet Hackathon Blog. This Hackathon is taught in English, but we invite instructors of other languages to lead sessions. Reach out to info@ammnet.org if you are interested in leading a session in French or Portuguese. The session will be recorded and made publicly available to all AMMnet members via the hackathon blog. This Hackathon is taught in English, but we invite instructors of other languages to lead sessions. Reach out to info@ammnet.org if you are interested in leading a session in French or Portuguese.