The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)

The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) is a non-profit project primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK. MAP is a joint project between the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya and the Spatial Ecology & Epidemiology Group, University of Oxford, UK, with collaborating nodes in Americas and Asia Pacific Region.

MAP was founded in 2005 to fill this niche for the malaria control community at a global scale and brings together researchers based around the world with expertise in a wide range of disciplines from public health to mathematics, geography and epidemiology. The ultimate goal is to produce a comprehensive range of maps and estimates that will support effective planning of malaria control at national and international scales.

The MAP team have assembled a unique spatial database on linked information based on medical intelligence, satellite-derived climate data to constrain the limits of malaria transmission and the largest ever archive of community-based estimates of parasite prevalence. These data have been assembled and analysed by a team of geographers, statisticians, epidemiologists, biologists and public health specialists.