WHO WE ARE

A committed partner in malaria control

The Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA, a program at PATH) was launched in 2005 to partner with the government of Zambia and its Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partners to accelerate national malaria prevention and control efforts and bring about rapid, significant impact on related health and economic indicators.

At the global and regional level, MACEPA collaborates with RBM and its networks and working groups and with program funders to inform the global agenda for malaria control and to strengthen the global malaria advocacy platform. Funding partners include the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the World Bank through the Global Strategy and Booster Program; and the US Agency for International Development and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the US President’s Malaria Initiative.

In 2006, with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, an international nongovernmental agency, initiated the design and start-up of the MACEPA Learning Community. Beginning in late 2007, the Learning Community, based in Lusaka, Zambia, will work in up to five African countries to advance the scale-up of malaria control and prevention.

Learning Community director

Judith Robb-McCord, MA, MPH, brings over 15 years of experience in international development and health systems strengthening to her role as director of the MACEPA Learning Community. Most recently, she served as health team leader for USAID in Ethiopia, where she managed the health, population and nutrition portfolio. Previously she served as the program director for the Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Program at JHPIEGO. Judith has held USAID posts in Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, and Kenya, and worked in Swaziland as a program officer with UNICEF. Ms. Robb-McCord received her MPH and MA in African studies from UCLA and has a BA in international relations from Brigham Young University.

Roll Back Malaria Partnership

To provide a coordinated global approach to fighting malaria, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund , the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. The RBM Partnership is now made up of a wide range of partners including malaria-endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions, who bring a formidable assembly of expertise, infrastructure, and funds into the fight against the disease. The RBM Partnership is pleased to be part of the MACEPA Learning Community. Visit the RBM Partnership website.

Photo (top) by PATH/Mike Wang.