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Wosera HDSS Site
About Us
The Wosera HDSS was set up in 1990 as part of a larger research program for Malaria Vaccine Epidemiology and Evaluation in Papua New Guinea.
It started with baseline investigation into malaria epidemiology and immunology investigations in 9 villages surrounding the Kunjigini Health Centre
leading to a phase IIb trial of a 3 component malaria vaccine in 1995. The enormous value of the HDSS for malaria and other health research was quickly realized and in order to have capacity to concurrently run several studies in the area,
the HDSS area rapidly expanded to 30 villages in 1995.The expansion went in hand with the building of extensive facilities both in the Wosera HDSS and at the IMR field base in Maprik, East Sepik Province.
The Wosera DSS includes 30 villages of in the Wosera/Gawi district, in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
Wosera HDDS lies approximately 75 km WSW of the provincial capital Wewak and is situated at 50-100m above sea level on the
large alluvial plain situated between the Torricelli Mountains in the North and the flood plain of the Sepik River in the South
and covers an area 12 km x 16 km. The Wosera DSS started in 1990 and is currently monitoring 14,000 people.
Objectives
1. To collect accurate information on demography, health and survival;
2. To provide a framework for population-based health research relevant to local health priorities and needs,
in particular the evaluation of malaria vaccines and other malaria interventions.
Priority Research Areas
Malaria: basic research, bed-net evaluation, vaccine trials, drug interventions
Mother and Child Health/IMCI
Health policy monitoring (from 2008 onward)
Funders
Government of Papua New Guinea,
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA)
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), World