Faith and malaria
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation convened a conference entitled “Faith and malaria – Towards an Integrated Solution” at Yale University over the 8th and 9th September, 2009. The conference was hosted by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Yale University in association with the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty and Yale World Fellows. KPMG was the official sponsor.
Aim of the consultation
The intention of this consultation was to move beyond general discussion of the topic of faith communities’ participation in the struggle against malaria to focus on key policy oriented questions and practical, fundable and sustainable next steps.
Core themes
The core themes that emerged from the meeting were:
- What is the unique contribution of faith communities to health? And how can their comparative advantage be best quantitatively measured, documented
and thus convincingly communicated to donors, governments and other stakeholders? - What is the optimum role for faith communities in an effective and integrated approach to malaria prevention locally, nationally and globally? And what are the immediate training and resource needs to achieve this?
- How is it possible to design, pilot and refine initiatives that draw on faith communities’ involvement nationally and locally, and how to scale up or replicate them?
