LIDC Development Matters: Assessing the Impact of Malaria

Development Matters: Assessing impact of malaria control on early cognitive development and educational outcomes for children in Mali and Senegal. In 2013 LIDC awarded its first Fellowship grants for interdisciplinary research in international development to three inter-college teams of academics from Bloomsbury Colleges. Nearly a year into the projects, LIDC talked to one of the teams: Sian Clarke, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Yvonne Griffiths, Institute of Education were awarded an LIDC Fellowship to explore the development of assessment tools for impact evaluation of malaria control on early cognitive development and educational outcomes for children in Mali and Senegal.