Malaria Forum: Collaboration, Innovation and Impact Final Report

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) hosted a Malaria Forum in Seattle, Washington, October 16-18, 2007, to bring together grantees, partners, scientists, advocates, and leaders to review progress in malaria control, share challenges and successes, and think creatively about how to solve the malaria problem using what we have today and what is needed in the future. Over 300 people participated in the Forum, the theme of which was Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact.

Collaboration
Collaboration has been key to the successes countries are seeing in their implementation programs, and most countries actively scaling up malaria control are beginning to see impact.

Innovation
Malaria has plagued humankind for millennia. Every time malaria has been managed by a drug or insecticide, it has evolved to survive and even thrive.

Impact
Forum participants agreed that collaboration and innovation—and any efforts against malaria—are meaningless unless they result in negative impact on the disease and positive impact on the people most affected by it.