Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $190,000 to the University of California, San Diego to support Professor Omar Akbari and two collaborators at UC Berkeley and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. They will model the costs and benefits of implementing Professor Akbari’s pgSIT method to suppress transmission of malaria in peri-urban areas of Africa.
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