Marta Maia

Experience

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  INVEC

  Apr 2008 - Jun 2009

  Scholarship Holder - EXIST Program

  Development of a business plan for providing intelligent insect control solutions for horse owners in Germany.

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  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London

  Aug 2009 - Jul 2013

  Post-doc Fellow Medical Entomology

  Post-doc in evaluating and characterizing spatial repellents against malaria mosquitoes. Evaluation of spatial and topical repellents neighboring effects.

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  Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2018

  The use of near infra red spectroscopy (NIRS) to detect Plasmodium falciparum infection in Anopheles gambiae s.s.. (Marie-Heim Voegtlin fellowship from the Swiss National Foundation of Science). Development of an ivermectin based attractive toxic sugar bait.Community acceptability, views and perception of attractive toxic sugar baits.Evaluation of Lantana camara as a potted repellent plant for resource poor settings.Near infrared spectroscopy for detection of Wolbachia infected mosquitoes.

  • Senior Scientific collaborator

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2018

  • Scientific collaborator

    Aug 2013 - Jul 2016
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  KEMRI - Wellcome Trust

  Sept 2016 - now

  Researcher
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  University of Oxford

  Nov 2018 - now

  Principal investigator in Kenya of the BOHEMIA trial funded by UNITAID (Broad One-Health Endectocide-based Malaria Intervention in Africa) evaluating ivermectin mass drug administration to humans and cattle as a vector control intervention to reduce malaria transmission in Kenya and Mozambique.

  • Associate Professor

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Researcher

    Nov 2018 - now