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Malaria febrile child diagnosed and treated in early morning in Mtwara, Tanzania

© MORU. Photographer: Lorenz von Seidlein

Africa malaria resists key drug

Millions of lives at risk unless urgent action taken to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading in Africa

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Health care workers treating a baby

Research Areas

Patient-centred research is the core of our research activities, spanning 5 research units and over 50 research sites in Asia and Africa.

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Molecular Malaria Lab members in a semi-circle doing thumbs up.

© MORU 2019

Malaria & Critical illness

Billions of people live in malaria endemic countries; we aim to improve health through research that addresses this threat.

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Schoolchildren in the audience of a Village Drama

© MORU 2019. Photo by Nicky Almasy

Bioethics & Engagement

Paying attention to the public and communities is essential to make our programmes ethical and trustworthy, to maximise their success and impact.

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Group photo of MORU members

© Photo by Gerhard Jørén

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Greater participation and inclusivity, as well as recognising the value of diversity, lead to fairer opportunities to fulfil everybody's potential.

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People from a community near the DeTACT recruitment site in Kaback, Guinea during a community engagement visit.

© Dr Mamadou Saliou Diallo / MORU 2023

Resistance to antimalarials

The global fight against malaria has hit a critical point in Africa, where parasites resistant to artemisinin have emerged.

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Meet our researchers

Carlo Perrone: Improving scrub typhus detection and prevention

Carlo Perrone

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Research Highlights

Prevalence and associated risk factors of stunting, wasting/thinness, and underweight among primary school children in Kandahar City, Afghanistan: a cross-sectional analytical study
Posted 17/09/2024. Bob Taylor and colleagues investigated 1205 primary school children in Kandahar and found almost 50% were stunted, 25% were underweight and 20% wasted. Risk factors for stunting in 6–9 year old children were poverty, skipping breakfast, and being a girl from a large family with an uneducated mother and an unemployed father.

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News

Participants to the MODRA workshop around a table

MODRA Workshop Empowers Early-Career Scientists to Secure Competitive Research Grants

7 October 2024

children playing on a in bench, DRC

New study to support WHO guideline changes

2 October 2024

Group photo of the FORESFA meeting, Sept 2024

FORESFA collaborators discuss organised crime groups, AI and public health impact of SF medicines at annual meeting

20 September 2024

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Latest Publications

COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing symptomatic and severe infection among healthcare workers: A clinical review
Journal article

Galgut O. et al, (2024), Vaccine: X, 20
Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of invasive bacterial infections among children from low- and middle-income countries in the Western Pacific Region (WPRO) – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal article

Moore N. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 51, 101177 - 101177
Obesity differs from diabetes mellitus in antibody and T-cell responses post-COVID-19 recovery
Journal article

Ali M. et al, (2024), Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 218, 78 - 92
Spatio-temporal occurrence, burden, risk factors and modelling methods for estimating scrub typhus burden from global to subnational resolutions: a systematic review protocol
Journal article

Wang Q. et al, (2024), Wellcome Open Research, 7, 285 - 285