How the atlas counts.

InnovAtlas maps the U.S. organizations working to end malaria and the partnerships that connect them to countries where malaria is still endemic. It shows who is doing the work, where in the United States they do it, and which endemic countries their research, products and programs reach.

A project of

Malaria No More

Data curated by

Sarah Staub-Meyers, consultant to Malaria No More, with the Malaria No More team

Designed and built by

IMACS

The atlas includes 166 organizations. They appear in one of two ways.

Listed organizations count in totals of organizations and in the states where they have a site. They carry no partnerships, so they add nothing to country counts. Organizations that declined to take part are not shown anywhere in the atlas.

These are the rules exactly as the atlas applies them.

1. 1

   A state is credited with every partnership of every organization that has a site there.

   An organization’s endemic-country partnerships are counted for each U.S. state where it has a site. A state’s connections are therefore the combined reach of the organizations located in it, not only the work done at that site. For example, Flyttr (formerly Oxitec) has sites in California, Texas, and Virginia, so each of those states is credited with its 3 endemic countries.

2. 2

   Counts are of distinct organizations.

   When the atlas says a state or country has a number of organizations, each organization is counted once, however many sites, partners or statements it has there.

3. 3

   U.S.-based means at least one site in the United States.

   164 of the 166 organizations have a U.S. site. IVCC and SORA have none, so they appear in the directory and on country pages but not on the U.S. map.

4. 4

   “Endemic” follows each country’s recorded malaria status.

   Partnerships link to 57 countries, and the atlas counts 55 of them as malaria-endemic, following the malaria status recorded for each country in the atlas’s country reference list. Belize and Singapore are linked but not counted as endemic.

5. 5

   The District of Columbia is counted on its own.

   Organizations in Washington, DC appear on the map and in state lists, but DC is not counted as a state. The atlas covers 29 states and the District of Columbia.

Each organization with a full profile has one type. The first 7 come from Malaria No More’s typology; “Advocacy organization” was added as the eighth type for organizations whose work is policy and advocacy.

Research institution

Universities, public research institutes, endemic-country research centers and other research organizations.

35 profiles

Pharmaceutical and biotech company

Pharma, biotech, vaccine and diagnostics developers.

8 profiles

Technology and manufacturing company

Vector control product makers, device and sensor developers, and digital, AI and data firms.

20 profiles

Non-profit innovator

NGOs and product development partnerships that develop or pilot new products, approaches or delivery models.

18 profiles

Service provider

Contract research and manufacturing organizations and testing facilities, such as insectaries and experimental huts: contracted technical capacity for the other types.

3 profiles

Government

Government agencies and public bodies.

1 profile

Funder

Philanthropies, foundations and other funders.

No profiles yet

Advocacy organization

Organizations whose malaria work is policy, advocacy and public education.

11 profiles

Where an organization works along the path from an idea to impact. An organization can work in more than one stage. Stages do not apply to advocacy organizations, so their stage reads “Not applicable”.

Each partnership statement names a partner in an endemic country and the nature of the relationship. The kind of work is read from that nature by a published keyword rulebook, not coded by hand: a statement that mentions a trial is a clinical trial, one that mentions training is capacity building, and so on. A statement can have more than one kind.

Research

Shared studies, laboratory and field research, epidemiology, entomology and modelling.

142 statements

Programs and delivery

Programs that put tools to work: campaigns, case management, chemoprevention, spraying, community health and technical support.

124 statements

Surveillance and genomics

Surveillance, genomic and molecular work, drug-resistance tracking, mapping and health data systems.

69 statements

Product testing

Evaluation, field testing, validation and quality assurance of products.

59 statements

Training and capacity

Training, fellowships, mentorship, workforce and infrastructure strengthening.

49 statements

Manufacturing and supply

Manufacturing, supply, procurement, distribution and commercialization.

30 statements

Clinical trials

Clinical trials of vaccines, medicines and other products, and the sites and partners that run them.

22 statements

Policy and advocacy

Policy, advocacy, stakeholder engagement and resource mobilization.

22 statements

Of 356 partnership statements, 324 (91%) match at least one kind. 24 do not state the nature of the relationship, and 8 state one that no rule recognizes. Because kinds are a reading of free text, they are a guide to the work rather than a formal classification.

Every statement in a profile carries its source, shown as numbered notes beside the text and listed in full at the end of the profile. Most sources are public web pages. Where the organization confirmed a statement directly, the source reads “Confirmed by the organization”.

The dataset grows as Malaria No More adds organizations. Each release carries a new version, and every count on the site is computed from it. Browse every organization in the directory.

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