title: Establishment of the Ivermectin Research for Malaria Elimination Network: updating the research agenda.
abstract: The potential use of ivermectin as an additional vector control tool is receiving increased attention from the malaria elimination community, driven by the increased importance of outdoor/residual malaria transmission and the threat of insecticide resistance where vector tools have been scaled-up. This report summarizes the emerging evidence presented at a side meeting on "Ivermectin for malaria elimination: current status and future directions" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans on November 4, 2014. One outcome was the creation of the "Ivermectin Research for Malaria Elimination Network" whose main goal is to establish a common research agenda to generate the evidence base on whether ivermectin-based strategies should be added to the emerging arsenal to interrupt malaria transmission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. carlos.chaccour@isglobal.org.|ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. carlos.chaccour@isglobal.org.|Instituto de Salud Tropical, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. carlos.chaccour@isglobal.org.
authors.forename: Carlos J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Chaccour
authors.affiliation: ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. regina.rabinovich@isglobal.org.|Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. regina.rabinovich@isglobal.org.
authors.forename: N Regina
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Rabinovich
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, UK. hannah.slater08@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Slater
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. saracanavati@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sara E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Canavati
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. teun.bousema@radboudumc.nl.
authors.forename: Teun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bousema
authors.affiliation: Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado/FIOCRUZ, Manaus, Brazil. marcuslacerda.br@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lacerda
authors.affiliation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. feiko.terkuile@lstmed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Feiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ter Kuile
authors.affiliation: Malaria Centre, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, UK. Chris.Drakeley@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Drakeley
authors.affiliation: ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. quique.bassat@isglobal.org.|Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique. quique.bassat@isglobal.org.
authors.forename: Quique
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Bassat
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Brian.Foy@ColoState.EDU.
authors.forename: Brian D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Foy
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand. Kevin.Kobylinski.gst@afrims.org.|Entomology Branch, Walter Reed Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Kevin.Kobylinski.gst@afrims.org.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobylinski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007305:Insecticide Resistance; D007306:Insecticides; D007559:Ivermectin; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009032:Mosquito Control; D055820:New Orleans
chemical_list: D007306:Insecticides; D007559:Ivermectin