Mosquito surveillance is essential for understanding and controlling vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, and other emerging health threats. Our research develops and evaluates innovative and operationally feasible approaches for monitoring mosquito populations and pathogen transmission across diverse ecological settings.
We work with multiple vector systems, including Anopheles, Aedes, and Culex mosquitoes, integrating field ecology, behavior, surveillance technologies, and public health applications. By improving how vectors and disease risk are monitored, we aim to support more effective, equitable, and evidence-based disease prevention strategies worldwide.
Through collaboration with researchers, public health agencies, and local communities, our work helps strengthen preparedness and response to both endemic and emerging vector-borne diseases.
A selection of relevant papers:
- Multiple Anopheles species complicate downstream analysis and decision-making in a malaria pre-elimination area in southern Mozambique. Malaria Journal 2024
- An evaluation of LLIN physical integrity and population attitudes towards net use, care and handling during the Magude project in southern Mozambique. Malaria Journal 2024
- An evaluation of LLIN ownership, access, and use during the Magude project in southern Mozambique. PLoS ONE 2023
- The realized efficacy of indoor residual spraying campaigns falls quickly below the recommended WHO threshold when coverage, pace of spraying and residual efficacy on different wall types are considered. PLoS ONE 2022
- The mosquito vectors that sustained malaria transmission during the Magude project despite the combined deployment of indoor residual spraying, insecticide-treated nets and mass-drug administration. PLoS ONE 2022
- Overlaying human and mosquito behavioral data to estimate residual exposure to host-seeking mosquitoes and the protection of bednets in a malaria elimination setting where indoor residual spraying and nets were deployed together. PLoS ONE 2022
- To spray or target mosquitoes another way: focused entomological intelligence guides the implementation of indoor residual spraying in southern Mozambique. Malaria Journal 2022
- Effect of wall type, delayed mortality and mosquito age on the residual efficacy of a clothianidin-based indoor residual spray formulation (SumiShield™ 50WG) in southern Mozambique. PLoS ONE 2021
- Moving towards malaria elimination in southern Mozambique: cost and cost-effectiveness of mass drug administration combined with intensified malaria control. PLoS ONE 2021
- Setting the scene for malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique. Malaria Journal 2019
- A multiphase program for malaria elimination in southern Mozambique (the Magude project): A before-after study. PLoS Medicine 2020
- Escalation of pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus induces a loss of efficacy of PBO-based insecticide-treated nets in Mozambique. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019
- Long-lasting insecticidal nets no longer effectively kill the highly resistant Anopheles funestus of southern Mozambique. Malaria Journal 2015