Leading Malaria Scientist Warns Tools Alone Will Not End the Disease

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Dr. Marcus Lacerda, a leading malaria scientist and Director of TDR since March 2026, highlights that tools alone are insufficient to end malaria, especially vivax malaria severely impacting children. He emphasizes the social consequences faced by those affected and the need for comprehensive approaches.

“Those are people who are being killed socially.” ​That is how Dr. Marcus Lacerda, one of the world’s leading malaria researchers, describes children whose futures are shaped by repeated bouts of vivax malaria. ​ ​Lacerda, who joined TDR as Director in March 2026, has spent more than 25 years studying infectious diseases in the Brazilian […]