In this free webinar, Dr Maria Eugenia Grillet presents her 2021 Hemingway Award talk. Dr Maria Eugenia Grillet, after being introduced by her nominator Professor Alicia Ponte-Sucre, will speak on the subject of Eco-Epidemiology of Vector-Borne Infection Diseases in Venezuela: Unravelling mechanisms and processes of pathogen transmission in the Neotropics.
The Hemingway Award is a joint award between RSTMH and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), who jointly delivered this webinar. The award recognises Professor Janet Hemingway’s achievements in delivering and encouraging translational science during her leadership of LSTM. Dr Grillet is a professor and principal investigator at the Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Dr Maria Eugenia Grillet studied biology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela) where she also got a Ph.D. in Ecology and started to do research on tropical insect vector ecology and mosquito-borne infectious diseases ecology. She did Postdoctoral studies in Canada (Montreal University) and currently she is a Full Professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela.
Her research mainly focuses on understanding how pathogen-vector interactions shape epidemiological patterns, and how entomological, pathogen-related, sociological and ecological factors drive the emergence and/or reemergence of some tropical insect-borne infectious diseases such as malaria, some arboviruses, and onchocerciasis. She works in the framework of the landscape ecology and epidemiology disciplines by using a multidisciplinary approach involving field- and laboratory-based studies as well as statistical/mathematical modeling.
With more than 12 years of public health experience, she has been part of several technical or expert (steering) international and national committees for the WHO, PAHO, Carter Center, Task for Global Health and OEPA in the field of medical entomology and vector control. In 2005, she was a visiting scholar of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, at the Imperial College (United Kingdom) thanks to a Royal Society Short Incoming Visit Award. Since then, she has been a visiting scholar in several Universities such as the University of Toronto, University of Groningen (Netherlands) and University of Ottawa, among others. Currently, she is a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the Latin American Academy of Sciences.
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