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Meet the Malaria Champions of the Americas Finalists
Dr. Mario H. Rodriguez Lopez, National Public Health Institute
Morales, Mexico
Dr. Rodriguez is a leading authority on malaria and has spent a great deal of his professional career working closely with various partners to control malaria in Mexico. He is the regional leader of the Mesoamerican Initiative for Public Health working to eliminate malaria in the region. In this role, he has been a successful manager in implementing interventions to control malaria and develop an information system for health in the Mesoamerica region.
Getting the Job Done
As a researcher and innovative leader, Dr. Rodriguez formed a working group for scientific and technical cooperation for malaria control in Mexico. His expertise in this realm has made him a national leader in extending technical support on policymaking to control programs. Additionally, he supported and successfully restructured the development of the alternative vector control without the use of insecticides in Mexico and Central America.
Regarded as a global malaria expert, he has produced over 141 articles, published four books, and participated in the preparation of 22 book chapters.
Building Partnerships
He formed a group of scientists devoted to research and service to Control Vector-Borne Diseases Programs in Mexico. Additionally, he also developed and has grown the Malaria Research Center, which later expanded its reach in a Regional Center for Public Health Research located in Tapachula, Chiapas. Dr. Rodriguez has also consolidated cooperative partnerships with universities, research institutes, international NGOs, research societies as well as national health authorities at international levels.
Results
He has extended technical support on policymaking to control programs, with the implementation of targeted control model, providing reasons and evidence, coordinating with the National Program for reducing transmission to up to 70% from 1999 to 2003, including an additional 31% from 2004 to 2007.
He supported and re-structured with successful results, the development of the alternative vector control without the use of insecticides for Mexico and Central America based on the Mexican model, with equally successful results. Positive results were obtained from impact with a 60% reduction in Central America and Mexico continued with a decline of 43% in demonstration areas concerned.
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