Project Title: Mosquito-Borne Disease Prevention in Africa Network
Project Description: The MosquitoNet project will focus on; 1) engagement and sensitization of community members and leaders to support mosquito surveillance programme in rural Tanzania, 2) develop ideas and co-create a distributed digital system for malaria vector surveillance that relies on community members instead of expert entomologists, 3) develop and implement short surveys to identify priority research agenda for mosquito control in rural and urban settings, 4) digitization of common entomological procedures to aid in capacity building... The MosquitoNet project will focus on; 1) engagement and sensitization of community members and leaders to support mosquito surveillance programme in rural Tanzania, 2) develop ideas and co-create a distributed digital system for malaria vector surveillance that relies on community members instead of expert entomologists, 3) develop and implement short surveys to identify priority research agenda for mosquito control in rural and urban settings, 4) digitization of common entomological procedures to aid in capacity building and training (e.g. parity direction, insemination etc), 5) establish partnerships between key
Principal Investigator : Fredros Okumu
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Time frame: (2020-09-10) - (2021-04-30)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Normal)
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