Team

The Mitigating Antimalarial Resistance Consortium for South-East Africa (MARC SE-Africa) is comprised of ten organisations from nine countries on three different continents that all work together to achieve a common goal: To better define the extent of antimalarial resistance regionally and even more importantly expedite the sharing of such evidence with National Malaria Programmes and their implementation partners.

The breadth of research expertise in the broadly inter-disciplinary consortium includes malaria epidemiology, social sciences, clinical pharmacology, infectious diseases medicine, molecular biology, biomedical statistics and mathematical modelling, as well as public health and health policy.

MARC SE-Africa is coordinated by Prof Karen I Barnes from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and supported by LINQ management GmbH (LINQ).


University Of Cape Town (UCT) / Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy (CCOAT)

South Africa

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Prof Karen I Barnes

Oversight & Coordination
Email

 +27 824402542

Marylin Solomons

Project Manager
Email

+27 216505044

Dr Stephanie Van Wyk

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email

+27 833578556

Dr Elizabeth Allen

Strategic Partnerships Lead (TGHN)
Email

Dr Jaishree Raman
Molecular Biologist (NICD)
Email

+27 113866374


Stichting Amsterdam Institute For Global Health And Development (AIGHD)

The Netherlands

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Prof Arjen Dondorp

Principal Investigator
Email

+66 818015675

Mark Van Knegsel

Project Manager
Email


Karolinska Institutet (KI)

Sweden

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Prof Anders Björkman

Co-investigator
Email

+46 722385310


Stiftelsen Magic Evidence Ecosystem (MAGIC)

Norway

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Prof Per Olav Vandvik

Principal Investigator
Email

 +47 97512391

Prof Prashanti Eachempati

Consultant Senior Researcher
Email

 +44 7917977090

Valerie Reinthaler

Research Admin
Email

 +47 48909407


WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network of the University of Oxford (WWARN/UOXF)

United Kingdom

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Prof Philippe Guerin
Principal Investigator

Email

Kalynn Kennon
Head of Data Engineering

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Dr Charvy Narain
Communications Officer

Email

Caitlin Richmond
Programme Manager

Email

Samantha McGregor
Communications Officer

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University of Rwanda (UR)

Rwanda

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Prof Leon Mutesa
Principal investigator

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Alexis Rugamba
Project manager

Email

Dr Mangara-Jean Louis Ndikumana
Co-investigator

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Josepha Mathy
PhD

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Dr Aline Uwimana
Co-Principal investigator

Email


Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) / Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme

United Kingdom

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Rhona Mijumbi

Principal Investigator
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Donnie Mategula

Scientific
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Marlen Chawani

Scientific
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Asimenye Lucy Kayuni

Grants Officer
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Lindiwe Bandazi-Mafuleka

Communication

Email


Infectious Disease Research Collaboration (IDRC)

Uganda

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Dr Joaniter Nankabirwa

Co-investigator
Email

Prof Moses R Kamya

Co-investigator
Email

Victor Asua

Co-investigator
Email


University of Melbourne (UOM)

Australia

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Prof Jennifer Flegg

Geospatial modelling
Email


LINQ management GmbH (LINQ)

Germany

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Dr Vera Schneider

Senior Advisor
Email

Britta Theobald-Löffler
Senior Project Manager
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Alice Diepenbrock

Project Manager
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Zala Tursic

Content and Communications Manager
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External Technical Advisory Committee

Prof Abdoulaye Djimdé

University of Science, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali
Email

Dr Leah Moriarty

President's Malaria Initiative 

Partnership for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring in Africa (PARMA)

Email

Dr Noella Umulisa

Jhpiego Rwanda/ RBM Case Management working group
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Dr Lumbani Munthali

NMP SADC Malawi Ministry of Health
Email