8 January 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen
A research team based in the U.S. and Burkina Faso received last year’s Newcomb Cleveland Prize. | Neil Orman/AAAS
Since 2010, the global number of deaths from malaria has decreased by 28%, largely due to the application of DDT, pyrethroids, and other insecticides to bed nets and living spaces. Still, a child dies of malaria every two minutes, and with mosquito populations becoming increasingly resistant to insecticides, vulnerable communities are in urgent need of new solutions.
Each year since 1923, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has honored the most impactful research paper published in the journal