title: Past and new challenges for malaria control and elimination: the role of operational research for innovation in designing interventions.
abstract: This meeting report presents the outcomes of a workshop held in Bangkok on December 1st 2014, where the following challenges were discussed: the threat of resistance to artemisinin and artemisinin-based combination therapy in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and in Africa; access to treatment for most at risk and hard to reach population; insecticide resistance, residual and outdoors transmission. The role of operational research and the interactions between research institutions, National Malaria Control Programmes, Civil Society Organizations, and of financial and technical partners to address those challenges and to accelerate translation of research into policies and programmes were debated. The threat and the emergency of the artemisinin resistance spread and independent emergence in the GMS was intensely debated as it is now close to the border of India. The need for key messages, based on scientific evidence and information available and disseminated without delay, was highlighted as crucial for an effective and urgent response.
authors.affiliation: Partners for Development, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. philippe.guyant@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guyant
authors.affiliation: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs, Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (IRD 224-CNRS 5290 UM1-UM2), Montpellier Cedex 5, France. vincent.corbel@ird.fr.|Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. vincent.corbel@ird.fr.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Corbel
authors.affiliation: Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Oxford, UK. philippe.guerin@wwarn.org.|Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. philippe.guerin@wwarn.org.
authors.forename: Philippe J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Guérin
authors.affiliation: Initiative 5%, Expertise France, Paris, France. adeline.lautissier@diplomatie.gouv.fr.
authors.forename: Adeline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lautissier
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. francois@tropmedres.ac.|Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand. francois@tropmedres.ac.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nosten
authors.affiliation: Medical entomology unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Tananarive, Madagascar. seboyer@pasteur.mg.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. mcoosemans@itg.be.|University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. mcoosemans@itg.be.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coosemans
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. arjen@tropmedres.ac.|Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. arjen@tropmedres.ac.
authors.forename: Arjen M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dondorp
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of pharmacy, UMR-MD3, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. veronique.sinou@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sinou
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Health and Development, Malaria Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. shunmay.yeung@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Shunmay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. nickwdt@tropmedres.ac.|Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. nickwdt@tropmedres.ac.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D004493:Education; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007305:Insecticide Resistance; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009874:Operations Research; D013785:Thailand; D014944:World Health Organization