New medicines to fight drug resistance and new technologies to curb parasite transmission are needed to rid the world of malaria, according to a new series of papers by Harvard Chan School researchers and co-authors According to the World Health Organization, 91 countries and territories have ongoing malaria transmission More than 180 scientists from Harvard Chan School and elsewhere spent a year updating the malaria research agenda Combining research knowledge with powerful tools such as genome editing can aid in the fight against malaria Significant issues remain, like increased insecticide and drug resistance and knowledge gaps But Harvard Chan School's Dyann Wirth thinks the new research agenda, while ambitious, is achievable
