This year we mark a decade of WWARN. As a unique collaborative data-sharing framework, over the last ten years WWARN has proved it is possible to produce policy-changing scientific evidence about the treatment of malaria from the collection, curation and further analysis of existing data.

Art exhibition “What’s in your medicines?” (Pharmacide Arts) is coming to the University of Health Sciences in Vientiane from 17–25 December 2019.

Sulaiman Jalloh, médecin en Sierra Leone, a récemment rejoint IDDO pour effectuer un stage de recherche. Dans cet entretien, il nous parle de sa carrière, de son vécu au cours de l’épidémie d’Ebola 2014-16 et nous fait part de ses réflexions sur la façon dont la recherche future devrait être prioris...

Sulaiman Jalloh, a medical doctor from Sierra Leone, has recently joined IDDO for a research internship. Here, he talks about his career to date, his experiences during the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak and reflections about how future research should be prioritised.

WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Group have published new research in BMC Medical Research Methodology, dealing with indeterminate outcomes in antimalarial drug efficacy trials: A comparison between complete case analysis, multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting.

WWARN’s Professor Joel Tarning has received a Bailey K. Ashford Medal today at ASTMH. The medal is named in honour of Bailey K. Ashford for recognising the connection between hookworm infection and anaemia at the age of 26.

Join us at the symposia on Poor Quality Drugs and Antimicrobial Resistance at this year’s ASTMH. Chaired by Dr Joel Breman, ASTMH President-elect, the #98 symposia takes place on Friday 22 November, in Potomac C (Ballroom Level) from 4pm to 5.45pm.

Come and meet us at this year’s ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting. Over 4,800 delegates are expected to attend with leading global health researchers from around the world. At this year’s conference we have symposia, talks and posters on scrub typhus, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and medicine quality.

Come and meet us at this year’s ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting. Over 4,800 delegates are expected to attend with leading global health researchers from around the world. At this year’s conference, as part of IDDO, we have symposia, talks and posters on malaria, scrub typhus, visceral leishmaniasis and me...

The Global access to quality-assured medical products: the Oxford Statement and call to action published today in The Lancet Global Health has been signed by 159 attendees at the 2018 Oxford Conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health from governments, multilateral agencies, academia and civil ...

TDR, IDDO and the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry are collaborating to support early-career doctors and scientists in Guinea to build their research skills and ultimately strengthen the country’s health system.

Applications have opened for PhD candidates from low and middle income Commonwealth countries to spend a year at a UK university.

When we are ill, we trust that the medicines that we take will make us feel and be better. But what if our pills do not contain the ingredients listed on the packaging? The art exhibition ‘What’s in your medicines?’ explores how substandard and falsified (‘fake’) medicines can affect our health, by ...

The first meeting of the newly formed Chagas Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) recently took place to shape the key aims and objectives of the Chagas disease data sharing platform. The platform was recently launched by the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) in collaboration with the Drugs...

The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Library, now available on WWARN, is the most comprehensive database of malaria in pregnancy available. The Library allows you to search published and unpublished literature free of charge.

An individual patient data meta-analysis of 2,017 patients from 19 studies has found a high risk of recurrence following treatment of P. vivax malaria with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) unless they are co-administered with primaquine. The research, published in...

A new study suggests that there are important but neglected issues with falsified and substandard medicines used to treat diabetes and that “no country is immune”.

Join us for the next Tropical Medicine Webinar 'Mapping and Tracking Malaria' on Wednesday 9th October at 09:30 GMT.

WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Group have published research in BMC Medical Research methodology and Malaria Journal comparing different statistical approaches for deriving cumulative estimates of drug efficacy from clinical studies. Results indicate that the Cumulative Incidence Function (CIF) approac...

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.