Climate-Informed Surveillance Can Strengthen Local Malaria Preparedness

Malaria transmission is shaped by interactions among climate, ecology, vectors, housing, prevention coverage and health-system performance. Climate-informed surveillance is therefore most useful when weather and climate information are interpreted alongside epidemiological and operational data.

For civil society, the opportunity is to strengthen the community layer of that system. Member organisations and volunteers can help identify access disruptions, environmental changes and unusual community concerns, while district teams verify the signal against surveillance and programme data.

This can support more timely social and behaviour change communication, outreach, commodity planning and follow-up during periods when local malaria risk or service vulnerability is expected to increase.