Administrative Core

Project Summary – Burkina Faso ICEMR Administrative Core The Administrative Core of the Burkina Faso ICEMR will provide the organizational capacity across ICEMR institutions and to the entire project for completing our goal of defining the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of malaria and malaria transmission, including both parasites and vectors, across the Sahelian, Sudano-Sahelian, Sudanian ecozones of Burkina Faso and within differing landscape environments (urban, rural, and migrant/artisanal gold-mining camps). The Administrative Core will be based at CSU and led by PD/PI Foy, who will closely coordinate with the PD/PIs and Lead investigators at Yale, IRSS and INSTech to plan and direct all elements of the entire project. The lead ICEMR Administrative Core manager will also be based at CSU, who will direct all administrative activities, approvals, budgets, communications and planning, and lead/advise similar managers at the IRSS and INSTech, as well as their accountants. It will be supported by administrative, grants management and accounting staff at CSU’s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, and Office of Sponsored Programs. The Administrative Core will work to build a cohesive and complementary team among our institutions, researchers and country partners, build capacity at partner institutions in Burkina Faso, provide effective and efficient management of the ICEMR budget and subcontracts, coordinate and integrate the sharing of ideas, science and technology among all partners, and facilitate the communications of all ICEMR functions, presentations and publications.