#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

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Saloni Dattani is a Researcher at Our World in Data, and a founder & editor at the online magazine Works in Progress. She holds a PhD in psychiatric genetics from King’s College London.

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In this episode we talk about:

• The history of malaria and attempts to eradicate it
• The role of DDT and insecticide spraying campaigns — and why they were scaled down
• Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
• What comes after vaccine discovery — rolling out the RTS,S vaccine
• New funding models to accelerate similar life-saving research, like vaccines for TB and HIV
• Why so much global health data is missing, and why that matters
• How the ‘million deaths study’ revealed that about 50,000 deaths per year from snakebites in India went uncounted by health agencies

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