The Vector Atlas launched

A new initiative, The Vector Atlas, was launched today. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by Dr Marianne Sinka (Senior Postdoctoral Researcher), this 3-year project will provide analyses-ready data and spatial models specifically tailored to inform malaria vector control in Africa.

The Vector Atlas brings together a new collaboration of partners (icipe, University of Oxford, MAP, PAMCA, GBIF, VectorBase, and IRMapper) in an initiative to build an online, open access repository to hold and share malaria vector occurrence, bionomics, abundance, and insecticide resistance data. The data will be fully up-to-date and form the basis of a series of spatial models specifically tailored to inform the control of mosquito vectors of disease.