Abdisalan Noor is team leader of the Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme (GMP) in Geneva, Switzerland. Before joining GMP, Dr Noor worked for more than 16 years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme where he served as a Wellcome Trust Fellow and Director of its Nairobi Programme and a Visiting Professor of Malaria Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, UK. His research has focused on measuring access to health care; mapping malaria transmission and at-risk populations; and the coverage and impact of malaria control interventions in Africa.

At the GMP, Dr Noor leads the development of normative guidance, tools and training materials on malaria surveillance and country support to strengthen surveillance systems and use strategic information for impact. He also leads the publication of the World Malaria Report. Dr Noor is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH).