Strong malaria surveillance systems also help design effective health interventions and evaluate the impact of malaria control programmes.
Malaria surveillance is the continuous and systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of malaria-related data
The data collected during malaria surveillance is used in the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice. Improved Malaria surveillance enables countries to monitor changing disease patterns and determine the appropriate interventions for affected populations or groups.
Our Ongoing Projects on Malaria Survellance
Rapid Pooling Project
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In partnership with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Ghana, this project aims to improve the Malaria Molecular Surveillance system of Ghana by introducing an innovative surveillance scheme involving rapid collection of blood samples from malaria patients by clinical staff as a preserved liquid sample, combined with rapid laboratory pooling, and next-generation sequencing.
The project is currently running on the sentinel sites established by the NMEP and we hope to fully integrate this innovative scheme into the National malaria surveillance program.
Recent News
Congratulations Rita!
Rita Afriyie Boateng was awarded a Ph.D. degree in computational biology and bioinformatics from Rhodes University, South Africa in April 2022. This was made possible with the guidance of Dr Anita Ghansah and her school supervisors over the course of three and half...
Welcome to Michaella Ahorbo
Michaella Ahorbo is our newest Research Assistant. She has a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology degree from the University of Health and Allied Sciences. Her role will be to conduct and support lab activities such as DNA extraction, PCR, Sequencing and data analysis....
Welcome to Mr Samuel Nyarko
Our newest member to the Ghansah lab is Mr Samuel Nyarko. Samuel holds a BSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Cape Coast and just submitted his MPhil thesis in Molecular Biology at the University of Ghana (West African Centre for Cell Biology for Infectious...