NOTHING BUT NETS: --Send a net, save a life!

Ned Walker, is an epidemiologist, microbiologist and entomologist who has dedicated his life to understanding and eradicating malaria.  He’s using a new $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how insecticide-treated bed nets can thwart the mosquitoes that cause malaria.  

Ned Walker
Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Entomology, and Fisheries and Wildlife

MSU scientist Ned Walker has degrees in zoology, microbiology and entomology, which serve him well in his detective work to find out how infectious diseases such as malaria move pass from mosquitoes to people.

With support from the National Science Foundation and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Walker is studying how insecticide-treated bed nets can disrupt the population dynamics of malaria, a disease that kills about 3,000 children each day in Africa. Research shows that using bed nets cuts mortality by almost 50 percent.

"Bed nets have emerged as a powerful and simple control tool and they only cost about $10 a piece to get into the homes of users. This research is international in scope and will help us help people, which is one of Michigan State's land-grant principles. I'm excited about the project and I'm excited about the opportunity to have people donate to the Michigan State Nothing But Nets team to save children."

This research is funded by the National Science Foundation and supported by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. The Kenya Medical Research Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are collaborators.

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