title: Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality.
abstract: Although global efforts in the past decade have halved the number of deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and control to discuss the ways in which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and opportunities, and explain how multi-factorial and integrated processes could eventually make malaria eradication a reality.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, 4002, Basel, Switzerland. bmcmedicineeditorial@biomedcentral.com.|University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. bmcmedicineeditorial@biomedcentral.com.
authors.forename: Marcel
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authors.lastname: Tanner
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. brian.greenwood@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Brian
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authors.lastname: Greenwood
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. christopher.whitty@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Christopher J M
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Whitty
authors.affiliation: Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana. Ansahekdr@yahoo.co.uk.
authors.forename: Evelyn K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ansah
authors.affiliation: Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia. rprice@menzies.edu.au.|Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. rprice@menzies.edu.au.
authors.forename: Ric N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Price
authors.affiliation: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. arjen@tropmedres.ac.|Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. arjen@tropmedres.ac.
authors.forename: Arjen M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dondorp
authors.affiliation: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Lorenz@tropmedres.ac.|Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Lorenz@tropmedres.ac.
authors.forename: Lorenz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: von Seidlein
authors.affiliation: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kbaird@eocru.org.|Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jalan Diponegoro No.69, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia. kbaird@eocru.org.
authors.forename: J Kevin
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.affiliation: Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia. beeson@burnet.edu.au.|Department of Microbiology, Monash University, 19 Innovation Walk, Victoria, 3800, Australia. beeson@burnet.edu.au.
authors.forename: James G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Beeson
authors.affiliation: Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia. fowkes@burnet.edu.au.|Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. fowkes@burnet.edu.au.|Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. fowkes@burnet.edu.au.|Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. fowkes@burnet.edu.au.
authors.forename: Freya J I
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Fowkes
authors.affiliation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. Janet.Hemingway@lstmed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hemingway
authors.affiliation: African Academy of Sciences, Miotoni Road, Miotoni Lane, House No. 8 Karen, P.O. Box 24916-00502, Nairobi, Kenya. kmarsh@aasciences.org.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marsh
authors.affiliation: KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya. fosier@kemri-wellcome.org.
authors.forename: Faith
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Osier
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D060740:Disease Eradication / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*