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Next Course: June 15-20, 2025
About the leadership course
The "Science of Defeating Malaria" is a nomination-based leadership development course. The curriculum content, pedagogy, and selection of participants is overseen by a Faculty Planning Committee comprised of representatives of the academic consortium with input from an External Advisory Committee and Alumni Council.
*The nomination phase is in progress
Nomination Process* and Participant Profile
The course organizers independently solicit nominations from a diverse cross-section of the wider global health and malaria communities. This includes malaria experts, partners, and collaborators from academia, business, public health, government, and biomedical research sectors. This competitive, global nomination process results in a participant pool that reflects future leaders of local, national, and international malaria efforts. The diverse range of professions represented in the course demonstrates the breadth of fields and sectors required to achieve malaria control and eradication. The nomination phase for the 2024 edition of the leadership course will begin in Fall. Please note that unsolicited applications are not accepted.
The leadership course targets individuals with the potential to advance to leadership roles in malaria within the next 2-5 years. Eligible candidates must have primary professional responsibilities related to malaria control, elimination, and eradication efforts, including roles in global public health, government, biomedical, public, and private sectors. Nominees invited to apply for "Science of Defeating Malaria" must submit a Curriculum Vitae and a 'Statement of Motivation' outlining their professional interests in malaria and how the leadership course will benefit their career. Limited travel fellowships are available for individuals from malaria-endemic countries, with priority determined by the Faculty Planning Committee.
Pedagogical Approach
The course employs a framework of mutual learning and exchange, combined with an interdisciplinary and participatory teaching format. This approach incorporates classroom lectures, case studies, expert discussions, and debates. Through these methods, participants explore the scientific and technological underpinnings of malaria, as well as the historical, political, social, and economic contexts in which control, elimination, and eradication efforts have unfolded.
To maximize resource sharing, course materials—including faculty presentations, case studies, problem-solving exercises, and other resources—are made available to course participants and the broader malaria community as a 'public good' whenever possible. Additionally, a free, online companion edition of the leadership course, called "MalariaX: Defeating Malaria from the Genes to the Globe," is open for enrollment. Faculty instructors include members of the Faculty Planning Committee, alumni, and experts from the global malaria community.