Nicholas M. AnsteySarah A. AuburnBaird K. KevinKatherine E. BattleAlbino B. BobogareArna C. ChancellorSanchai C. ChasombatQin C. ChengGonzalo J. DomingoChristopher J. DrakeleyTobgyel D. DrukpaLek D. DysoleyFe Esperanza EspinoPeter W. GethingPrakash G. GhimireRoly D. GoslingPenny G.D. Grewal-DaumerieSimon I. HayRosalind E. HowesJimee M. HwangJahirul K. KarimWasif Ali KhanJung Yeon KimBenedikt L. LeyKylie M. MannionJames M. McCarthyWan Ming KeongM. Ivo MuellerRinzin N. NamgayRic N. PriceGao Q. QiMarvi R. RebuenoJohn R. ReederJack R. RichardsJetsumon S.P. Sattabongkot-PrachumsriG. Dennis ShanksCarol Hopkins SibleyAsik S. SuryaGeorge T. TaleoNgo Duc ThangVonethalom T. ThongpaseuthKamala T. ThriemerHidayat T. TrimarsantoLasse S. VestergaardLorenz Von SeideleinMaxine W. WhittakerMenzies School of Health ResearchEijkman-Oxford Clinical Research UnitUniversity of OxfordMinistry of Health and Medical ServicesUniversity of QueenslandThailand Ministry of Public HealthAustralian Army Malaria InstitutePATHLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineMinistry of HealthNational Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria ControlDepartment of Health ManilaRibhuvan UniversityUniversity of California, San FranciscoMedicines for Malaria VentureWellcome Trust Centre for Human GeneticsCenters for Disease Control and PreventionDirectorate General of Health ServicesInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research BangladeshKorea NIHQIMR Berghofer Medical Research InstituteWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical ResearchVector Borne Disease Control ProgrammeJiangsu Institute of Parasitic DiseasesPilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc.Burnet InstituteMahidol UniversityWorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN)Ministry of Health, Republic of IndonesiaMinistry of HealthNational Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology HanoiCentre of MalariologyEijkman Institute for Molecular BiologyRegional Office for the Western PacificNuffield Department of Clinical MedicineNational Institute of Public HealthOrganisation Mondiale de la SanteUniversity of Washington, SeattleNational Institutes of Health, BethesdaCase Western Reserve UniversityInstituto de Salud Global de BarcelonaMonash UniversityUniversity of MelbourneUniversity of Mebourne2018-11-232018-11-232015-12-01Malaria Journal. Vol.14, No.1 (2015)147528752-s2.0-84949562890https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/36051© 2015 World Health Organization; licensee BioMed Central. The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) is a collaboration of 18 country partners committed to eliminating malaria from within their borders. Over the past 5 years, APMEN has helped to build the knowledge, tools and in-country technical expertise required to attain this goal. At its inaugural meeting in Brisbane in 2009, Plasmodium vivax infections were identified across the region as a common threat to this ambitious programme; the APMEN Vivax Working Group was established to tackle specifically this issue. The Working Group developed a four-stage strategy to identify knowledge gaps, build regional consensus on shared priorities, generate evidence and change practice to optimize malaria elimination activities. This case study describes the issues faced and the solutions found in developing this robust strategic partnership between national programmes and research partners within the Working Group. The success of the approach adopted by the group may facilitate similar applications in other regions seeking to deploy evidence-based policy and practice.Mahidol UniversityImmunology and MicrobiologyMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1186/s12936-015-0958-y