All authors listed below have equally contributed to the article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the work of the many WHO-GMP staff and others who contributed to the background documents and preparations for the MPAC meeting, including: Eva Christophel from WPRO; Leonard Ortega from SEARO; Melanie Renshaw, chair of the Vector Control TEG, from the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA); Kevin Baird, chair of the G6PD ERG, from the Eijkman Institute, Indonesia; Peter Smith, chair of the JTEG, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and Azra Ghani from Imperial College.
The authors also thank all the MPAC meeting observers for their contributions during the meeting discussions. The MPAC process is supported in part by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the WHO Global Malaria Programme.
WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee Members
Salim Abdulla, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, United Republic of Tanzania
Fred Binka, University of Health and Allied sciences, Ho, Ghana
Patricia Graves, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United
Kingdom
Rose Leke, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Elfatih Malik, Ministry of Health, Gezira, Sudan
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Sylvia Meek, Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom
Kamini Mendis, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Allan Schapira, Legazpi City, Philippines
Laurence Slutsker, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of
America
Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Neena Valecha, National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India
Nicholas White, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee Secretariat
Pedro Alonso, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Andrea Bosman, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Richard Cibulskis, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Bianca D'Souza, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Abraham Mnzava, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Pascal Ringwald, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Erin Shutes, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland
Zsofia Szilagyi, WHO Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland