Discover how we can keep the upper hand in our fight against the malaria mosquito by managing insecticide resistance development.

Duration: 3 weeks

Starting date: Monday 25 July 2022 (but you can also join now and catch up!)

FutureLearn link https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-resistant-mosquito-staying-ahead-of-the-game-in-the-fight-against-malaria

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42 steps, mixture of videos, animations, articles, quizzes, discussions, activities. Case studies from Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Sri Lanka.

Trailer (2 min 39 sec) on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsRrWyY184

For questions: konstantina.boutsika@swisstph.ch

The VCWG, in collaboration with the University of Basel, the Swiss TPH, and many other organisations and institutions, has developed a Massive Open Online Course to help address the challenges of insecticide resistance in the mosquito vectors of disease.

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

• Explore the concept of insecticide resistance (IR), and how it develops in a mosquito population
• Evaluate the impact of insecticide resistance on malaria vector control and the importance of managing it
• Investigate the principles of applied Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM)
• Identify IRM as an essential and integral component of vector control activities to reduce the burden of, eliminate, and eventually eradicate malaria

This course is intended for those with any involvement in mosquito vector control as well as students and scholars of Public Health, One Health, Entomology, Epidemiology or Evolutionary Biology. It will also appeal to the general public interested in malaria elimination, vector-borne diseases and mosquito control. It lasts for three weeks with two to three hours of weekly study and is free to access!