A Day in the Life of the National Malaria Elimination Center

Our day kicked off with a welcome tour of the National Malaria Elimination Center from Vector Link, taking a look at their insectary and mice housing. We were able to hear about their daily anti-malaria field work tasks like Indoor Residual Spraying as well as some of the laboratory work like Insecticide Resistance Testing.

We were then lucky enough to join some members of PATH, who also work out of the NMEC facility. We were able to pick their brains about their relationship with the community and the intervention areas where we could engineer something that could really help! Their experience and opinions were priceless and gave us many insights about malaria surveillance and control.

From there we moved on to a presentation with Vector Link and the Ministry of Health workers about their role and responsibility in spraying and resistance testing. We had time to speak with each of the members, get their input about the role of innovative technology and dig deeper with many questions about their process.

We concluded the evening by meeting up with Dr. Stevenson who had driven into Lusaka that day from Macha. We all got a delicious Indian meal together and ended the night with some wine and Netflix (as well as our new friend Georgie!). Tomorrow off to Kitwe!