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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