Discovery Center

Tour & Staff Chat

World Malaria Day

Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 2 - 3 pm PST

No registration required

Women installs a mosquito net around her bed
Alzerona Freitas, 55, arranges her new bed net on June 21, 2018 in Nossa Senhora de Fátima Community, Manaus, Brazil. Freitas says she’s allergic to the insecticide powder that covers the net and has to wash it before use. Unidade Básica de Saúde Rural (UBSR) Nossa Senhora de Fátima is located in the Nossa Senhora de Fátima Community, a rural area of Manaus, about 1-hour up the Tarumã-Mirim River. The clinic offers basic health services including malaria and TB diagnostic and treatment, prenatal care, among others.

Tour the galleries for 30 minutes with a Discovery Center guide and then chat with a featured staff member at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about their area of focus.

This week

Peter Berry, Senior Program Coordinator on the Global Health, Malaria team at the Gates Foundation
Join us to recognize World Malaria Day and hear Peter talk about the Gates Foundation’s evolving strategy for malaria eradication.  The call to eradicate malaria came in 2007 and the strategy has changed over the years based on what the Foundation has learned from its partners in the field. Learn how the development of insecticide resistance in mosquitos and drug resistance in malaria parasites has changed our approach.

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