A nonprofit academic group founded May 1, 2006 and led by Peter Gething, the Kerry M. Stokes Chair in Child Health at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Western Australia. The Malaria Atlas Project creates and distributes geographical information about malaria worldwide, estimating malaria prevalence and distribution patterns across regions, making its data publicly accessible through its own repository, and supplying mapped information to organizations including the World Health Organization. The project combines medical data, climate information and community prevalence estimates using statistical modeling to produce comprehensive global malaria maps used to guide control and elimination programs.
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Program Kind Program status (class) Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Malaria Atlas Project
Wikipedia- Wikipedia 'Malaria Atlas Project': present-tense description of current work; checked 2026-09-27.
Wikipedia summary, program classification
The work of MAP falls into three areas:Estimation of the spatial distribution of malaria prevalence and incidence and related topics, such as the spatial distribution of insecticide treated nets, antimalarial drugs, mosquito vectors, and human blood disorders
Disseminating data on malaria via the Repository for Open Access Data (ROAD-MAP) project
Providing maps relating to malaria prevalence and related topics for the World Health Organization (WHO) and other bodies
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