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| 2005 || || || MAP is founded by Bob Snow and {{w|Simon I. Hay}} with the purpose of filling the niche for the malaria control community at a global scale.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Malaria Atlas Project: Cartographic approaches to estimating populations at risk, burden and elimination feasibility |url=http://www.healthdata.org/events/seminar/malaria-atlas-project-cartographic-approaches-estimating-populations-risk-burden-and |website=healthdata.org |accessdate=5 March 2019}}</ref>
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| 2006 || May 1 || || The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) is launched with the goal of collecting and verifying data for a new, detailed model of ''{{w|Plasmodium falciparum}}'' and ''{{w|Plasmodium vivax}}'' malarial infection incidence throughout the globe.<refname="Parasites and pestilence">{{cite web |title=Parasites and pestilence |url=https://web.stanford.edu/class/humbio153/InteractiveMaps/Background.html |website=web.stanford.edu |accessdate=8 March 2019}}</ref> The MAP Web site (<code>map.ox.ac.uk</code>) launches to further the aims and ambitions of MAP.<ref name="The Malaria Atlas Project: Developing Global Maps of Malaria Risk">{{cite journal |last1=Hay |first1=Simon I |last2=Snow |first2=Robert W |title=The Malaria Atlas Project: Developing Global Maps of Malaria Risk |doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030473 |url=https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030473}}</ref> |-| 2007 || May || || As of date, MAP has 3670 parasite rate surveys from 79 countries.<ref name="Parasites and pestilence"/>
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| 2008 || || Staff || Peter Gething, Professor of Epidemiology at the The Big Data Institute, {{w|University of Oxford}}, joins MAP. As of 2019, Gething is Head of the Malaria Atlas Project.<ref>{{cite web |title=PROFESSOR PETER GETHING |url=https://map.ox.ac.uk/staff/petergething/ |website=map.ox.ac.uk |accessdate=5 March 2019}}</ref>
