Malaria.com brings together researchers, field practitioners, travelers, journalists and the public to create a comprehensive and dynamic source of malaria information. By connecting groups of people in different countries with varied backgrounds, but joined by a common interest in malaria, Malaria.com provides a network, driven by its members, which can be used to tackle the problem of malaria infection throughout the world.
Malaria.com provides malaria information, research and news, a personalized Q&A, as well as community tools to facilitate networking and the sharing of malaria related information.
Edited by Dr. Claire Standley, Malaria.com is guided by an international board of advisors from the worlds of media, epidemiology and technology.
Malaria.com is produced by Epicenter Communications.
Managing Editor
Dr. Claire Standley
Dr. Claire Standley is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, where she studies the ecology and control of infectious diseases in East Africa. Her interests have always revolved around the interface between diseases, biodiversity and human public health, starting with a bachelor degree in Zoology from the University of Cambridge and followed by an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation from the University of Oxford. For her doctoral research, Claire focused on the epidemiology and transmission of intestinal helminths in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, from the perspective of vector biology as well as implementing control programs to improve the health of local communities. Part of this research involved looking at malaria diagnostics and co-infection of malaria with other parasitic diseases, within the context of developing effective and efficient integrated control strategies.
Executive Team
Matthew Naythons MD
Dr. Naythons is a physician, journalist, NGO founder and early Internet health entrepreneur.
After covering the exodus of Cambodian refugees into Thailand for TIME Magazine, he formed and led International Medical Teams (IMT), a mobile relief organization that provided medical care to Cambodian refugees and displaced Thai villagers from 1979–1982.
In 1991, Naythons founded Epicenter Communications, which in 1995 published the first guide to online health: The Internet Health, Fitness, and Medicine Yellow Pages. Later that year, Epicenter formed two Internet health divisions: NetMed and NetHealth and created some of the first disease-specific health sites on the Internet. NetHealth/Epicenter websites included Diabetes.com, Depression.com, and Alzheimers.com among others.
In January 1999, NetHealth was purchased by PlanetRx.com and Naythons became Vice President and Publisher of the online pharmacy. Following PlanetRx, Epicenter Communications resumed building health websites include Mednews.com, Heal.com, and Malaria.com.
Peter Goggin
Peter Goggin has been a leader in online health since 1995. As vice-president and co-founder of NetHealth, a division of Epicenter Communications, Inc., Goggin led the development of some of the first vertical health communities online, including Diabetes.com, Alzheimers.com, Depression.com, Obesity.com and others. In January, 1999, he joined online pharmacy PlanetRx as Director of Project Management, and then became PlanetRx’s Vice-President of Design and Production. Later, he joined ISL Consulting, a San Francisco Internet consulting firm specializing in strategic consulting and the development of open-source web applications. He is currently Vice-President of Epicenter Communications, Inc., a Partner at Argonaut Ventures, LLC, and co-founder of Malaria.com.
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