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New success story: Target Malaria

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A major milestone towards malaria control

Capacity-building efforts from research consortium Target Malaria have accelerated research outputs in novel vector control approaches towards disease transmission

Challenge	A multidisciplinary consortium of researchers from around the world are coordinating efforts to co-develop novel genetic approaches to eradicate malaria in Africa. The consortium has recently published the entomological results of a first release study of non gene drive genetically modified sterile male mosquitoes conducted in July 2019 in Burkina Faso. The field entomology coordinator of the consortium, Professor Frederic Tripet, Director of the Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology at Keele University, explains that having access to powerful user-friendly analytical software is important for field data analysis. However, delays in organizing access to such tools slows capacity building for many research collaborations focusing on public health in Africa. Prof. Tripet notes that it is a pervasive form of injustice that prevents access to science and innovation for malaria, a disease that each year afflicts over 200 million people and causes over 600,000 deaths.
Solution	JMP Statistical Discovery granted consortium-wide access to JMP Pro software for Target Malaria researchers in Europe and Africa through a license with its lead institution, Imperial College London. In contrast to open-source packages such as R, JMP facilitates high-quality, publication-ready data visualization, exploration, analysis and reporting – all without a single line of code. As a result, field researchers are now empowered to explore and analyze their own data, thereby removing their reliance on external biostatistical support that had previously delayed research output.
Results	“Access to JMP has been so important for capacity building,” says Professor Tripet. Having a statistical tool that is both powerful and accessible, he says, has accelerated not only research but also the publication of that research, bringing scientists one step closer to the inclusion of novel genetic vector control strategies in the broader malaria control toolkit.