Malaria fighters in Seattle
Steve Scher, host of KUOW’s talk show Weekday, today interviewed three Seattle experts who are working to control and prevent malaria, a disease that kills 1 million people a year, mostly children.
A podcast of the show is available online.
Scher’s guests included:
- Dr. Rip Ballou, deputy director for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an expert on malaria vaccine development
- Dr. Kent Campbell, director of the Malaria Control Program at PATH, an expert on malaria treatment and control.
- Dr. Stefan Kappe, a researcher at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, who studies biology of malaria-carrying mosquitoes and understanding how the malaria parasite infects mammals.
To learn more:
- Visit the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus page on malaria
Category: Global Health, Infections
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