Jacques D Charlwood

PeerJ Author

Summary

Medical entomologist with extensive experience (40 years, 100+ publications) of fieldwork on five Continents (South America, Oceania, Africa, Europe and Asia). I specialize in the ecology and control of vectors of malaria.

Ecology Entomology Public Health

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Asmara

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London

Work details

Honorary Research Fellow

Instituto Nacional de Saude

January 2004

Entomologia Medica

I have been an honorary fellow of the Institute for a number of years as coordinator of the Mozambican-Danish Rural malaria initiative (based in Morrumbene District, Inhambane Province) whose main aims were to develop low cost alternative techniques for the control of malaria vectors in southern Africa. We focussed in particular on ways to improve housing so that even if mosquitoes were able to enter they could not leave (i.e. we wanted to turn houses into traps for mosquitoes). We were only partially successful in this but were able to show that using old nets around the eaves and gables of village houses significantly reduced mosquito entry.

Honorary Research Fellow

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

April 1997

I have worked with the GHTM group of the IHMT for many years as a medical entomologist specializing in the ecology and control of malaria vectors.

Lecturer

University of Asmara

April 2016

Epidemiology

Teaching the ecology of malaria vectors to graduates

Senior Research Assistant

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

April 2014

Medical Entomology

I was responsible for the TRAC (tracking resistance to artemisinin) project in Cambodia. I evaluated spatial repellents against primary and secondary malaria vectors in remote areas of Cambodia and undertook basic ecological studies of Cambodian mosquitoes, including anophelines and Aedes.

Research Fellow for the PAMVERC project Muleba, Tanzania

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London

April 2015 - March 2016

Disease Control

I was the local PI for an MRC funded randomized control trial to compare the effect of mosquito nets treated with permethrin and a synergist (PBO) designed to reduce the effect of insecticide resistance on malaria transmission. The four arm trial involved 130,000 residents of Muleba District on the norther shore of Lake Victoria. The four arms included nets alone and nets with indoor residual spraying (IRS) of a residual insecticide (primiphos -methyl).

PeerJ Contributions

July 19, 2021

Novel sampling methods for monitoring Anopheles arabiensis from Eritrea

Jacques D. Charlwood, Amanuel Kidane Andegiorgish, Yonatan Estifanos Asfaha, Liya Tekle Weldu, Feven Petros, Lidia Legese, Robel Afewerki, Selam Mihreteab, Corey LeClair, Ayubo Kampango

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11497 PubMed 34322315

July 10, 2018

‘We like it wet’: a comparison between dissection techniques for the assessment of parity in Anopheles arabiensis and determination of sac stage in mosquitoes alive or dead on collection

Jacques D. Charlwood, Erzelia V.E. Tomás, Amanuel K. Andegiorgish, Selam Mihreteab, Corey LeClair

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5155 PubMed 30018854

November 15, 2017

The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes

Jacques D. Charlwood, Mark Rowland, Natacha Protopopoff, Corey Le Clair

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3848 PubMed 29158961

March 28, 2017

Some like it hot: a differential response to changing temperatures by the malaria vectors Anopheles funestus and An. gambiae s.l.

Jacques Derek Charlwood