Emory University received $2.8 million in funding from the Gates Foundation to support its work to develop and test a high-tech, low-cost method to control an invasive mosquito that poses a growing threat of urban malaria in Africa. The three-year project is focused on three cities in Ethiopia: Jigjiga, Semera and Logiya.The project’s novel approach to combating malaria combines on-the-ground knowledge of human and mosquito behaviors with detailed environmental imagery from drones and NASA satellites. Machine learning techniques will be applied to the data to develop a model — powered by artificial intelligence — for targeted public health interventions.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082688">Read more</a>

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