Dr Mehul Dhorda heads the Asia Regional Centre of the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN).
Finding the best malaria treatments
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Artemisinin resistance is firmly established in many parts of Southeast Asia and threatens the lives of millions of people. To improve regional intelligence and aid containment efforts, Dr Dhorda promotes the collection of high quality data on malaria drug resistance. His research aims to simplify and harmonise data, securely store results and analyse comparative or collective pooled analyses.
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