How can we turn the tide on malaria? As noted by WHO, malaria control programs globally will need to keep up and increase the pressure on the parasite. Beyond existing tools, we think that new tools are also likely needed to take elimination across a global finish line. In a laboratory somewhere in the world (perhaps the laboratory of whoever is reading this...yes I'm talking to you!), maybe 2019 will be the year where your game-changing breakthrough will give the world a long-acting drug, or a highly-effective vaccine, or a critical mosquito control, or another miraculous feat of science that will precipitate the End of Malaria. Here's to wishing that 2019 is such a year!
(End Malaria graphic adapted from http://www.africairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/end-malaria.jpg)