Malaria.com

Malaria.com harnesses the power of the Internet for advocacy, education and fundraising. Our goal is simple: fighting malaria, one bed net at a time.

Co-founded by Dr. Matthew Naythons and Peter Goggin, Malaria.com is guided by an international advisory board from the worlds of media, epidemiology and technology.

To help raise funds to fight malaria, Malaria.com recommends the Against Malaria Foundation. The organization spends 100% of all money raised for to the purchase and distribution of bed nets.

Founders

Matthew Naythons MD

Dr. Naythons combined hospital ER medicine with an award-winning career as an international photojournalist for Time magazine. While covering the exodus of Cambodian refugees into Thailand, he formed and led International Medical Teams (IMT), a mobile relief organization that provided medical care—including malaria treatment—to Cambodian refugees and displaced Thai villagers from 1979–1982.

On assignment for National Geographic, Dr. Naythons accompanied a Centers for Disease Control mission to Kenya that studied the effect of hand-dipped insecticidal treated mosquito nets on malaria transmission. Results of the 1988 study were dramatic, and malaria in studied villages dropped markedly. Pre-packaged insecticidal treated nets made mosquito net distribution an effective epidemiological option following the 1988 CDC study. But, in the time since Dr. Naythons first accompanied the CDC team, malaria has continued to kill up to two million people each year.

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 which 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 merged with PlanetRx and Naythons became Vice President and Publisher of the online pharmacy. In 2006, Naythons co-founded Argonaut Ventures LLC, which funds and takes an active role in developing early stage companies, currently specializing in online health. Current Epicenter Communications and Argonaut projects include Mednews.com and Disease.com—and as of September, 2008, Malaria.com.

Peter Goggin

Peter Goggin has been a leader in online health since 1995. As vice-president of NetHealth, a division of Epicenter Communications, Inc., Goggin led the development of some of the first vertical health commmunities online, including Diabetes.com, Alzheimers.com, Depression.com, Obesity.com and others.

In January, 1999, NetHealth was purchased by PlanetRx, and Goggin became Director of Project Management at PlanetRx.com, and then Vice-President, Design and Production.

In 2003 Goggin joined ISL Consulting, a San Francisco Internet consulting firm specializing in strategic consulting and the development of open-source web applications. At ISL Goggin managed a major corporate eCommerce website, and led the development of a number of disease-specific physician portals which featured applications for building online Physician Continuing Medical Education courses (CME), online slide-libraries, XML-based news feeds, and sophisticated workflow content management systems for editorial staff to create and publish online content.

Peter Goggin is currently Vice-President of Epicenter Communications, Inc., and a Partner at Argonaut Ventures, LLC, a business consulting and development company for early-stage start-ups.