Milestones, meetings and updates from across the MoDD Africa network.
Cross-hub working groups spent the week tackling shared technical challenges hands-on from building an ERA5-and-elevation climate pipeline for Kinshasa to modelling vector biting behaviour, microclimate and vectorial capacity turning the network's collaboration and skill-building aims into working code.
A year on from launch, the network reconvened in Dar es Salaam to review the first year's progress and set priorities for the next drawing country leads, researchers and programme partners from across the hubs.
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MoDD Africa joined partner projects — the Malaria Atlas Project, the University of Dar es Salaam and HISP (DHIS2) for a one-day meeting to align Tanzania's climate-and-health modelling: mapping each project's activities, shaping an integrated workplan, and advancing plans for a national Climate and Health Technical Working Group with the NMCP and Ministry of Health.
MoDD Africa and the Modelling Climate on Malaria in Tanzania project introduced their work to the Ministry of Health, the National Malaria Control Programme and partners including the Tanzania Meteorological Agency, UDSM and NM-AIST. Over two days the group built a shared picture of Tanzania's malaria and climate challenges, explored new climate–health data tools, and agreed next steps on data sharing and a joint steering committee.
MoDD Africa formally got under way with a three-day kickoff at ICIPE in Nairobi, aligning the team on the four-year roadmap, the science agenda, and getting the hubs operational.
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