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World Malaria Day seminar 2019 - Antimalarial treatments for vulnerable groups

MORU Bangkok

To mark World Malaria Day on 25 April WWARN’s Dr Makoto Saito and Professor Joel Tarning from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit and Head of WWARN Pharmacometrics presented their work on prevention and treatment of malaria in vulnerable groups at a seminar hosted by the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health

Joel Tarning and Makoto Saito

The full story is available on the WWARN website

In this video, Professor Joel Tarning from our Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand, presents highlights on population PK/PD modelling to assess the dosing of antimalarial drugs in vulnerable groups.

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