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Professor Steve Lindsay

Emeritus Professor


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Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biosciences

Biography

Steve is a public health entomologist with a particular interest in the control of vector-borne diseases. He was part of the team that first showed that insecticide-treated bednets reduced mortality from malaria in children. Since then, he has carried out clinical trials of house screening, larval source management, new generation insecticide-treated bednets, insecticide-treated bednets in combination with indoor residual spraying, and topical repellents. His current focus of research is on improvements to the built environment for the control of vector-borne diseases. He is a strong advocate of multi-sectoral action for vector control and has produced publications developing this approach for the control of vector borne diseases. Over the past 40 years he has have carried out field work in The Gambia, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Laos PDR, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda and published over 280 peer-reviewed papers, many in high impact journals. He was also a lead writer of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) ’Global Vector Control Response 2017-2030’, ’Toolkit for Integrated Vector Management for sub-Saharan Africa’ and the ‘Global framework for the response to malaria in urban areas. He was a member of WHO’s Vector Control Advisory Group and WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases. He has held an honorary chair in public health entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently engaged in a randomised controlled trial of a novel type of house on the three main killer diseases of children in sub-Saharan Africa: malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases. He is also on the executive committee of the Lancet Commission ‘Building out Aedes mosquitoes: eliminating dengue as an urban threat’.

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Research interests

  • Malaria vector control
  • Housing and malaria
  • Integrated vector control
  • Vector ecology and behaviour
  • Ecology of infectious diseases
  • Study design of field trials

Publications

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