In 2021, GLIDE launched its first call for proposals for the Falcon Awards for Disease Elimination, inviting disease elimination stakeholders in endemic countries to submit proposals that aim to accelerate the elimination of one or more of GLIDE’s four focus diseases: malaria, polio, lymphatic filariasis, and onchocerciasis. Four winning projects were selected to accelerate disease elimination in their respective countries.
This Falcon Awards initiative aimed to implement innovative surveillance techniques to help eliminate malaria and LF in eight provinces across the Philippines where they were both prevalent. The project equipped trained Community Health Workers with android tablets to collect a brief history and a geolocation of patients who visit rural health facilities. This data will be leveraged to inform integrated strategies for surveillance of these diseases within the Philippines and beyond.
In partnership with: Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Philippines
