Publications

Selected research contributions on malaria elimination, spatial modelling, mobility, and AI-enabled surveillance.

Human mobility and malaria transmission

Integrating mobility, travel survey, and malaria case data to understand drivers of malaria importation to Zanzibar, 2022–2023.

Muller JG, Dewalt K, Gosling R, et al. Malaria Journal, 2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-025-05605-1

Connecting mobility to infectious diseases: the promise and limits of mobile phone data.

Wesolowski A, Buckee CO, Engø-Monsen K, Tatem AJ. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw273

Plasmodium falciparum malaria importation from Africa to China and its mortality: an analysis of driving factors.

Lai S, Wardrop NA, Huang Z, Bosco C, Tatem AJ, et al. Scientific Reports, 2016

DOI: 10.1038/srep39524

Integrating rapid risk mapping and mobile phone call record data for strategic malaria elimination planning.

Tatem AJ, Huang Z, Narib C, et al. Malaria Journal, 2014

DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-52

International population movements and regional Plasmodium falciparum malaria elimination strategies.

Tatem AJ, Smith DL. PNAS, 2010

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002971107

Fine-scale targeting of malaria hotspots

Occupations at high risk for malaria in Zanzibar: a case–control study, May–August 2023.

Makenga G, Gallalee S, Gosling R, et al. Malaria Journal, 2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-025-05517-0

Fine-scale malaria risk mapping from routine aggregated surveillance data.

Sturrock HJW, Cohen JM, Keil P, Tatem AJ, et al. Malaria Journal, 2014

DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-421

Hitting hotspots: spatial targeting of malaria for control and elimination.

Bousema T, Griffin JT, Sauerwein RW, Gosling R, et al. PLoS Medicine, 2012

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001165

Tackling imported malaria: an elimination endgame.

Sturrock HJW, Roberts KW, Wegbreit J, Ohrt C, Gosling RD. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015

DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0256

Integrated data pipelines and AI-enabled modelling

Malaria outbreak prediction at the sub-district level in Zambia using remote sensing satellite data.

Ippolito MM, Kamanga A, Mharakurwa S, et al. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-025-05644-8

Antimalarial drug resistance and implications for the WHO Global Technical Strategy.

Ippolito MM, Moser KA, Kabuya JBK, Cunningham C, Juliano JJ. Current Epidemiology Reports, 2021

DOI: 10.1007/s40471-021-00266-5

Spatial prediction of malaria prevalence in Papua New Guinea: a comparison of Bayesian decision network and multivariate regression modelling approaches.

Cleary E, Hetzel M, Siba P, Lau C, Clements A. Malaria Journal, 2021

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-021-03804-0

WorldPop, open data for spatial demography.

Tatem AJ. Scientific Data, 2017

DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.4