Table 2 Outstanding questions and data gaps

 • Improving access to national data on fine resolution census and meteorological data

 • Explore new methods of defining local population denominators and catchments

 • Improving geo-coded inventories of health service providers

 • Improved understanding of fever incidence, infection risk and treatment-seeking patterns across all age groups and genders, including better structured quantitative and qualitative methodologies

 • Developing tools for tracking quality of data in routine data systems

 • Surveillance for PfHRP2/3 deletions

 • Building long-term, sustainable capacity in national malaria programmes (NMPs) to understand, interrogate, display and interpolate routine malaria data