Webinar Description

Malaria vector larval source management was implemented with great success in the early-20th century, amongst other impacts strongly contributing to enabling the construction of the Panama Canal. Then we moved to DDT, and finally we embraced bednets (and partly IRS). Given our struggles to breach residual malaria and reach Elimination, is it time to once again embrace larval source management more enthusiastically?

Date & Time: 30^th March 2022, Wednesday (2 PM – Singapore Time)

Facilitator: Dr Leo Braack

Speakers/Panellists:

• Kalista Chan, PhD candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
• Ravindra Jayanetti, Malaria Elimination Officer WHO/UNV, Center for Malariology, Parasitology & Entomology, Vientiane, Lao PDR (Former District Programme Manager, Anti Malaria Campaign, Sri Lanka).
• Susanta Kumar Ghosh, Former Scientist G and Head, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, India.

Title of presentations:

• The control of malaria vectors in rice fields – Kallista Chan
• LSM as a supplementary tool to achieve malaria elimination: Experience & lessons learned from Sri Lanka – Ravindra Jayanetti
• Anopheles stephensi – an urban Larval Source Management in India – Susanta Kumar Ghosh