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UC San Diego — Cost-Benefit Analysis for Malaria Suppression

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  • Portfolio Area: Human Health and Wellbeing
  • Focus Area: Scientific Research
  • Organization Name: San Diego
  • Amount: $190,000

  • Award Date: April 2022

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $190,000 to the University of California, San Diego to support Professor Omar Akbari and two collaborators at UC Berkeley and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. They will model the costs and benefits of implementing Professor Akbari’s pgSIT method to suppress transmission of malaria in peri-urban areas of Africa.

    This falls within our focus area of scientific research, specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing.

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