Vector Control

  • Global study confirms mosquito nets remain a powerful weapon against malaria – but warns their long-term effectiveness is under threat – Link | Link to Paper
  • Durability of the insecticidal activity of next-generation insecticide treated nets distributed for malaria control in Mozambique: Findings from the New Nets Project (2020–2022) – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • Preclinical animal models for onchocerciasis and loiasis: A systematic review of applications in drug screening – Link

Data

  • Potential of machine learning for prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases: a scoping review – Link

AI and Innovations

  • Global advances in health artificial intelligence: a workforce imperative – Link
  • National academy of medicine to convene workshop on preparing for a future of AI-enabled biology – Link
  • International joint research paper with Burapha University in Thailand published in IEEE Access — Proposing a new method for analyzing infectious disease surveillance data using explainable AI – Link
  • Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals – Link
  • How AI can accelerate drug development – Link
  • New WHO discussion paper sets out opportunities and risks of AI in evidence-informed health policy – Link

Drug and vaccine development

  • MIT researchers develop new vaccine adjuvant that could make it easier to eradicate polio – Link | Link to Paper

Drug resistance

  • Updates for insecticide resistance monitoring: discriminating concentrations and methods – Link
  • Emergence and spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Zambia – Link
  • Intravenous artesunate in artemisinin-resistant severe malaria in Uganda – Link

Immunisation

  • The power of science for health: Malawi’s milestones transforming lives – Link 
  • Zambia undertakes the second round of the polio vaccination campaign to protect every child against polio – Link

Surveillance

  • Integrated surveillance for lymphatic filariasis and other infectious diseases with a nationwide non-communicable disease STEPwise survey in the small Pacific Island Nation of Niue, 2025 – Link
  • Tracking malaria in Central America – Link

Elimination progress

  • Technical Advisory Group sets priorities and benchmarks to end polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan – Link

Climate and Health

  • Climate change and infectious diseases: translating evidence into action – Link
  •  Should climate change be declared a global health emergency? – Link

Other

  • WHO EMR Polio bulletin issue No. 1444, week 22 (ending on 07/06/2026) – Link
  • Conserved genetic and antigenic profiles of Pf12 and Pf41 in asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum carriers in Tanzania – Link
  • Management of uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in a pregnant patient With G6PD deficiency – Link
  • Beneficiary feedback mechanisms: Exploring ways to systematically integrate community feedback in mass drug administration delivery for NTDs – Link
  • Implementation research for advancing health equity: Design and competency-based assessment of a short-term implementation research training program focused on health equity in global health – Link
  • Standard malaria treatment still the best, even against resistant strains – Link
  • Target product profiles of laboratory and data analytical frameworks for genotyping to monitor antimalarial efficacy – Link
  • Malaria is gaining ground—but researchers are developing promising new solutions – Link
  • Pan-European One Health Network established to bolster infectious disease response – Link 
  • WHO EMR polio bulletin issue No.1443, Week 21 – Link