Hello colleagues, 

The final Entomological Surveillance Planning Tool (ESPT), an operational decision-support tool for national malaria programs to plan entomological surveillance activities, interpret entomological data, and guide and advance data-driven vector control decisions is shared in this message, together with the 2-page document summarizing the ESPT purpose and intended use. The ESPT was developed by the University of California, San Francisco’s Malaria Elimination Initiative and the University of Notre Dame (ND) with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An Entomological Surveillance Working Group (ESWG) of national, regional, and global experts guided the design and iteration of the tool, and an early draft of the ESPT was piloted with national malaria programs and partners in several countries across Mesoamerica, southern Africa, and the Greater Mekong Subregion throughout 2018/2019.

The ESPT will be available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese by the end of 2020.

The ESPT is a new addition to the MEI Malaria Elimination Toolkit .The MEI toolkit offers a suite of evidence-based, user-friendly tools to strengthen national and district-level malaria elimination programs. Please visit the ESPT webpage for an overview of the ESPT.

Training materials on the ESPT will also be available by the end of 2020. If you are interested in using or learning more about the ESPT, please contact the following individuals: Élodie Vajda (also French speaker) elodie.vajda@ucsf.edu, Allison Tatarsky allison.tatarsky@ucsf.edu, and Neil Lobo nlobo@nd.edu