Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
·
2024 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Relationship between malaria vector survival, infectivity, and insecticide-treated net use in western Kenya.
Journal Article Parasit Vectors · November 12, 2024 BACKGROUND: Significant effort and resources have been invested to control malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but it remains a major public health problem. For the parasite to be transmitted, the female Anopheles vector must survive 10-14 days fol ... Full text Link to item CiteÀ la carte: how mosquitoes choose their blood meals.
Journal Article Trends in parasitology · July 2024 Mosquitoes are important vectors for human diseases, transmitting pathogens that cause a range of parasitic and viral infections. Mosquito blood-feeding is heterogeneous, meaning that some human hosts are at higher risk of receiving bites than others, and ... Full text CitePlasmodium falciparum infection in humans and mosquitoes influence natural Anopheline biting behavior and transmission.
Journal Article Nature communications · May 2024 The human infectious reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum is governed by transmission efficiency during vector-human contact and mosquito biting preferences. Understanding biting bias in a natural setting can help target interventions to interrupt transmissi ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Once Bitten: Acquisition of Malaria Adaptive Immunity (OBAMA - Immunity)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2028Synthesizing immunoinformatics and genetic epidemiology to identify signatures of natural functional immunity to malaria parasites
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2028Antibody biomarker discovery for current and recent asymptomatic malaria exposure
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Vanderbilt University ·
2018
Ph.D.