The Ecology of Malaria Vectors

Professor J.D Charlwood is Honorary fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; Honorary Fellow of Global Health and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, Lisbon, Portugal, Lecturer College of Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea. He has 42 years of working in the field in Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, São Tomé, Cambodia, Mozambique, Ghana, The Gambia and 100+ publications on malaria vectors. Professor Charlwood published the first peer reviewed article on impregnated mosquito nets for malaria control (in PNG), was the entomologist for the first African malaria vaccine trial (in Tanzania), and worked in the epicentre of drug resistance emergence in S.E. Asia (in Cambodia). He was the implementer of the PAMVERC trial (in Tanzania).

Dr. Sarah Moore is a vector ecologist specializing in the chemical ecology and control of Anopheles mosquitoes with a focus on new and existing methods of repelling mosquitoes to protect individuals, households and communities. This includes repellents, repellent treated clothing and odour baited traps. Since working in Tanzania and witnessing the elegance of bednets as a malaria control tool in this setting, she has branched out into the evaluation of new indoor vector control tools including bednets and insecticides used for indoor spraying with new combinations of active ingredients or longer lasting formulations. As her knowledge of vector control deepened, she has added epidemiological evaluations of vector control tools to her research portfolio. Her work is dedicated to accurately measuring the efficacy of vector control tools using appropriate experimental design and data analysis in an open and collaborative way, and supporting others to build their own capacity to be able to do the same. Dr. Moore is currently leading the Good Laboratory Practice accreditation of the Ifakara Health Institute insecticide testing facility, and she is supervising four PhD students registered at Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute, University of Basel, where she is a group leader. In this way, Dr. Moore hopes to assist the global malaria control community to respond to the ever-shifting vector control environment to achieve malaria eradication in a timely and cost effective manner.

Dr Olivier Briët is a senior malariologist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, analyzing effectiveness of existing and novel vector control and other integrated malaria control intervention strategies for partners such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, the US President's Malaria Initiative, and the World Health Organization. His scientific research and operational support to national malaria control programs focuses on evaluating and optimizing the effectiveness of existing and novel vector control intervention tools and strategies. He has a strong interest in quantitative evaluation methods. Previously, while serving as an integrated expert at the Rwandan Ministry of Health, Dr Briët supported the development and implementation of an integrated surveillance and response system for notifiable diseases, and also supported the National Malaria Control Programme. Prior to his work in Rwanda, he developed a malaria forecasting system with the Sri Lanka National Malaria Control Programme. When based in Côte d'Ivoire, he was part of a consortium studying the association between rice ecosystems and malaria and schistosomiasis in West Africa Dr Briët earned a Doctor of Philosophy