The Corporación de Biotecnología, Quito, provides support to MAP in Ecuador. MAP gratefully acknowledges this support and, in particular, that from Dr Fernando Sempértegui, director of the Corporación de Biotecnología.

The Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) at the University of Florida hosts and supports Dr Tatem and Smith and was recently established to fuse key disciplines in developing outreach, education, and research capabilities for preventing or containing new and re-emerging diseases. At the University of Florida, Dr Tatem is also supported by the Department of Geography, while Dr Smith is supported by the Department of Zoology.

The Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology (EIMB) in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosts the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit and generously provides space, internet access and other support to MAP in Indonesia. MAP gratefully acknowledges this support from EIMB, and the advice and encouragement provided the Director of EIMB, Professor Sangkot Marzuki.

The National Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases (NIITD), under the leadership of Dr Nguyen Van Kinh, generously hosts the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi. The Vietnam based MAP scientists work in partnership with NIITD and the National Institute for Malaria, Parasitology and Entomology.

The Kenya based scientists are hosted in Nairobi by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). KEMRI is a Kenya government parastatal with the responsibility for health research to improve the health of Kenyans. It is one of the most well developed national research institutes in Africa with a network of centres across Kenya.

MAP also enjoys support the support of several institutions. The Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford hosts the UK scientists of MAP. The Department of Zoology, within the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, has a long-standing reputation for world class research and teaching of infectious disease biology.

The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK. It funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending over £600 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome Trust supports public debate about biomedical research and its impact on health and wellbeing. It provides significant resources to the Malaria Atlas Project through Fellowship support to many of the senior scientists.

The Malaria Atlas Project is funded by The Wellcome Trust (UK) to assemble medical intelligence and survey data to provide evidence-based maps on the distribution of malaria risk, human population, disease burdens, mosquito vectors, inherited blood disorders and malaria financing and control worldwide. The maps generated are the results of a collaboration between malaria scientists in UK, Kenya, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador and the USA.

Canada Foundation for Innovation. MAP has received support for research infrastructure (scanner donated) in Kenya from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, awarded to the Faculties of Medicine and Law, University of Ottawa, Canada (GRIP number 202381).

MAP receives generous support from Amazon Web Services, who have provided us with a grant enabling use of their Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service for running high-end statistical modelling and mapping computations.

Fondation Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach. We are grateful to the Fondation Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach for providing salary support to Dr. Frédéric Piel to pilot the investigation of the spatial distribution of the inherited blood disorders and their relationship with malaria endemicity and further recent significant investment into mapping the distribution of human populations in Africa.

Li Ka Shing Foundation. MAP has realised that there is a paucity of information on Plasmodium vivax prevalence from many countries. The project has identified important weaknesses in accessing and assembling such data necessary to estimate the global distribution and disease burden of vivax malaria. This has led to the collaboration, under the auspices of MAP, with funding from the Li Ka Shing Foundation Global Health Programme and Oxford University to develop a science driven malaria control tool for P. vivax in 15 malaria endemic countries across Asia and the Pacific region.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. With increasing interest in the elimination of malaria from low transmission countries, the data and models developed by MAP can provide a strong evidence base for the design of spatial elimination planning tools. We are grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for providing support (Grant #49446) to Dr David Smith and Dr Andy Tatem to undertake this research.