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Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s group published new research that shows how to select village locations to prevent the spread of malaria in Africa

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Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s group published new research that shows how to select village locations to prevent the spread of malaria in Africa
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Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former CEE graduate student Dr. Noriko Endo published a study on how wind direction directly effects the spread of malaria at the village scale. The findings were published in The Lancet Planetary Health and are based on three-years of field work in Ethiopia and coordinated numerical experimentation using HYDREMATS, a disease transmission model developed by CEE researchers. Read more here.