Malaria Policy Advisory Committee
Introduction
The WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) in keeping with its normative role for malaria prevention, control, and elimination, this year embarked on a major review and re-design of its policy-setting process so that it is more responsive to a rapidly evolving malaria landscape. This was done with the help of a specially convened external Advisory Group who reviewed previous and existing GMP policy processes and successful policy models from other WHO departments, and proposed the architecture for a new malaria policy committee. The result is the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC); welcome to its dedicated webpage.
The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) will provide independent advice to World Health Organization (WHO) to develop policy recommendations to control and eliminate malaria. The mandate of MPAC is to provide strategic advice and technical input, and extends to all aspects of malaria control and elimination, as part of a transparent, responsive and credible policy setting process.
MPAC will advise the WHO Director-General specifically on:
- appropriate malaria policies and standards based on data from malaria programme implementation by Member States and malaria control partners as well as reviews of the best available evidence;
- engagement of WHO in malaria-related initiatives
- major issues and challenges, to achieving global malaria goals;
- the identification of priority activities to address identified challenges
