Spatial and temporal distribution of the N1575Y allele and its impact on malaria vector control activities

Antoine is a senior laboratory technician based at the Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme in Burkina Faso. He is studying a new insecticide-resistance haplotype in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae, caused by two mutations in the insecticide target site. Understanding the distribution and impact of this new haplotype on efficacy of vector control tools will help inform best practice in malaria vector control throughout West Africa, where this new mutation is present. This work is being undertaken in collaboration with Professor Hilary Ranson of the Department of Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

This grant was awarded under the scheme's previous name of Master's Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.