LSHTM Health Clark Lecture: Investigating persistent malaria transmission in Tanzania

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Malaria centre would like to invite you to join this year’s second installment of the Heath Clark lecture “Investigating persistent malaria transmission in Tanzania“.

After two decades of effective control programs, the burden of malaria has declined in many parts of Tanzania. To sustain these gains, it is important to continually investigate how the transmission patterns are evolving; and deploy improved strategies that are responsive to emergent threats such as insecticide and drug resistance. This presentation will describe our efforts to characterise the malaria transmission patterns in south-eastern Tanzania and to develop improved methods for accelerating the control efforts.

The talk will cover both entomological and parasitological investigations to map the trends and magnitude of malaria transmission, as well as our innovative anthropological and environmental surveys designed to characterise its dynamics. Lastly, examples of traditional and new approaches for tracking infections will be described.

Date: Wednesday October 5, 2022.

Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm BST (GMT+1)

Venue:  Online via live broadcast, and in-person at LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, United Kingdom.

Speaker: Dr Fredros Okumu is Director of Science at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania. He is a public health researcher and a mosquito biologist working on improved approaches for surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Fredros is passionate about improving ecosystems for researchers in Africa. He also serves in various advisory groups, including the World Health Organization Malaria Policy Advisory Group. 

This event is free and open to all with no registration required.

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