In 2021, five virtual events replaced the annual face-to-face meeting of the Working Group
General Information
VCWG work stream matrix
VCWG brief update
List of Participants
Session 1 - Restructuring of VCWG work stream, call of interest and refreshed focus
Meeting Report Session 1 (EN)
Agenda Session 1
Recording Session 1
Abdourahmane Diallo - RBM Partnership Strategic Plan 2021–2025
Justin McBeath & Keziah Malm - The first restructure of the Vector Control Working Group in five years!
Hannah Koenker & Allan Were - Enhancing the impact of core interventions work stream - evolution, structure and future plans
Allison Tatarsky & Sheila Ogoma - Expanding the vector control toolbox work stream - evolution, structure and future plans
Mark Hoppé & Chadwick Sikaala - Implementing the Global Vector Control Response - evolution, structure and future plans
Session 2 - Updates from the vector control community
Meeting Report Session 2 (EN)
Agenda Session 2
Recording Session 2
Jan Kolaczinski - Update on recent, ongoing and future Global Malaria Programme work on malaria entomology and vector control
Raman Velayudhan - Global Vector Control Response (2017-2030) An update
Kate Kolaczinski & Patrick Okello - The Global Fund’s support to vector control
Rick Steketee - Partnering in the fight to end malaria: what's new on PMI's agenda
Nick Hamon - Delivering a toolbox of disruptive vector control innovations for malaria eradication
Joseph Wagman - Maintaining malaria vector surveillance in the context of COVID-19 mitigation
Session 3 - Work stream 1: Enhancing the impact of core interventions
Meeting Report Session 3 (EN)
Agenda Session 3
Recording Session 3
Hannah Koenker & Allan Were - Introduction to Task Forces – for discussion at end
Neil Lobo - The Entomological Surveillance Planning Tool (ESPT): Evaluating interventions based on functionality and gaps in protection
Tom Churcher - Optimising the deployment of vector control tools against malaria
Sarah Burnett - Experience working directly with countries to support country-led national decision-making processes using their available data sources (Brief remarks)
Saraha Rabeherisoa - Comparative study of the protective efficacy of the distribution of isolated LLINs and LLIN+IRS in two regions with high malaria transmission in Madagascar
Joe Wagman & Julia Mwesigwa - Interim update from the New Nets Project pilot evaluations
Amelia Bertozzi-Villa - Patterns of net ownership, retention, and use in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Poyer - Streamlined ITN durability monitoring
Angus Spiers - Making the case for method validation
Rosemary Lees - Developing consensus SOPs for evaluating nextgeneration ITNs
ePosters
Duncan Athinya & Melinda Hadi - Work stream 1
Michael Coleman - Work stream 1
Session 4 - Work stream 3: Implementing the global vector control response
Meeting Report Session 4 (EN)
Agenda Session 4
Recording Session 4
Mark Hoppé & Chadwick Sikaala - VCWG WS3 presentation
Willem Takken - Innovative strategies for vector control - Progress in the global vector control response
Fiona Shenton - Building out vector-borne diseases: Research on innovations and pathways for scaling-up
Kristin Saarlas - The Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition
Lucia Fernandez - New developments in the WHO DHIS2 entomological surveillance toolkit
Tessa Knox & Amanda Murphy - Initiatives to strengthen vector surveillance in the Pacific so as to optimise vector control effectiveness
Emily Dantzer - Key findings from a global landscape analysis on entomological surveillance best practices
Dennis Aribodor - The need for multiple approaches to the control of vectors cannot be overemphasized
Anne Wilson - Introduction to the 'Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan' (CEASE) project
Arran Hamlet - Predicting the public health impact of Anopheles stephensi invasion on the transmission of falciparum malaria in Ethiopia
Jo Lines - The spread of Anopheles stephensi through East Africa is causing increasing concern amongst malaria control programme managers
Session 5 - Work stream 2: Expanding the vector control toolbox
Meeting Report Session 5 (EN)
Agenda Session 5
Recording Session 5
Sheila Barasa & Allison Tatarsky - Introduction, scene setting, workplan
Win Han Oo & Julia Cutts - Evaluation of the effectiveness of topical repellent distributed by village health volunteer networks against Plasmodium spp. infection in Myanmar: A steppedwedge cluster randomised trial
Eric Ochomo - Spatial repellents for the control of vector borne diseases
Richard Allan & Laura Paris - Operational research on vector control in emergencies
Elliott Dossou-Yovo - Rice intensification: could climate change interventions help African malaria elimination?
Htin Kyaw Thu - Community engagement for vector control: key learning from APMEN VCWG workshop
April Monroe - Unlocking the human factor to increase effectiveness and sustainability of vector control tools
Mario Avila - Using the Entomological Surveillance Planning Tool (ESPT) to integrate human behavioral and entomological data towards identifying gaps in protection in Guna Yala, Panama
Mathias Mondy - Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSB): the development pathway of a new product class
Laura Norris - GM & Gene Drive Mosquitoes: Product Development Pathway
Mamadou Coulibaly - Making lab and field progress towards the development of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control in Africa
Carlos Chaccour - Endectocides: current state
ePosters
Tiago Canelas - Eave tubes, work stream 2