How NMCPs approach SMC during the strategic planning process and how modeling can be used to predict the impact of SMC

In this webinar, we discussed how national malaria control programs (NMCPs) approach SMC during their subnational intervention planning process, national malaria strategic plan development, and resource mobilization plans from the Global Fund and others. Mathematical modeling is increasingly being used to inform these discussions, including providing impact estimates of adding cycles, expanding the eligible age range, and expanding to new districts.

The webinar opened with a presentation of the overall process of subnational targeting of interventions and the context for modeling with a special focus on SMC. Next, individual modeling groups that have supported this process presented the assumptions and approaches that go into their SMC models. This was followed by an example from an NMCP illustrating their SMC targeting approach and how modeling informed their discussions. The session concluded with a presentation on how decisions on SMC have been made in Global Fund funding requests.