Melissa Penny
Teaching
- Modeling for Malaria Elimination
Past Core Course:
- The Role of Modeling to Inform Elimination
- The Investment Case for Malaria Eradication
Dr Melissa Penny is a senior member of the Malaria Modeling Group at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland. Her work focuses on developing and using mathematical models to provide quantitative evidence to support malaria control and elimination decisions. With a focus on assessing the potential impact of malaria vaccines on transmission and clinical disease, she recently led the multi-institute collaboration that provided evidence to the World Health Organization and other stakeholders on the likely public health impact and cost-effectiveness of the malaria vaccine RTS,S. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics.