Climate change and the growing population in tropical and subtropical regions are accelerating the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, posing urgent public health challenges worldwide.
It’s imperative we build national capacity programs for healthcare professionals to respond and manage climate change-related impacts on health, disasters, and risk reductions.
Jomo Kigotho knows from personal experience the devastating impacts of malaria. Now, the young scientist is part of a team that’s found a new weapon in the war against the disease-causing parasite.
The first results of a major trial using the bacterium Wolbachia to stop the spread of the tropical disease has been a huge success.
Philanthropy is now viewed as a way of creating communities of people with a shared goal of bringing positive, practical change to the world.
Monash is playing a leading role in the push to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.
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