Head of Office Nakasuji attended the opening ceremony marking the designation of Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre (BMHRC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Zoonotic Malaria

2026/9/28
On 28th September, Head of Office Nakasuji attended the opening ceremony marking the designation of Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre (BMHRC), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Zoonotic Malaria.

BMHRC is the first and only WHO Collaborating Centre in the world dedicated specifically to zoonotic malaria, where the “Project for Sustainable Control of Zoonotic Malaria Through an Integrated Approach”, sponsored by the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) program, is being implemented in collaboration with several Japanese universities.