The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Insights Project, in collaboration with the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, carried out a broad stakeholder consultation process to identify pressing evidence gaps in malaria strategy and guidelines and to define a set of country-driven operational research (OR) and program evaluation (PE) priorities to address the gaps. Given the emphasis placed on locally-led research in PMI’s latest strategy to end malaria faster, the consultative process engaged 128 global, national, and local stakeholders from 26 countries in order to ground the topics in malaria endemic country perspectives.
The process resulted in a defined set of 33 OR and PE topics that reflect critical evidence gaps that are impeding many NMPs’ achievement of high coverage of malaria interventions and the effective deployment of new tools. Additional information and resources can be found below.