The Resistant Mosquito: Staying Ahead of the Game in the Fight against Malaria

  • University of Basel and Swiss TPH NEW

The University of Basel in collaboration with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) would like to invite you to register for the massive open online course( MOOC) titled ‘The Resistant Mosquito: Staying Ahead of the Game in the Fight against Malaria’. Learning will take place on the FutureLearn platform.

Discover approaches and advances in our fight against the malaria mosquito using Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM).

Course duration: 3 weeks.

Start date: March 13, 2023

Content:

  • Week 1 – Introduction to vector control, insecticides and insecticide resistance.
  • Week 2 – The insecticide-resistant mosquito
  • Week 3 – Insecticide Resistance Management from theory to practice

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

  • Explore the concept of insecticide resistance (IR), and how it develops in a mosquito population.

  • Evaluate the impact of insecticide resistance on malaria vector control and the importance of managing it.

  • Investigate the principles of applied Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM).

  • Identify IRM as an essential and integral component of vector control activities to reduce the burden of, eliminate, and eventually eradicate malaria.

Eligibility:

This course is designed for anyone involved in mosquito vector control as well as students and scholars of Public Health, One Health, Entomology, Epidemiology, or Evolutionary Biology.

It will also appeal to the general public interested in malaria elimination, vector-borne diseases and mosquito control.

Read more here.

You can also access the course for free here

  • University of Basel and Swiss TPH NEW
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