Fredros is currently the director of science at the Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania’s premier health research institution. In this role, he is focused on malaria control and prevention by targeting mosquito vectors. Fredros says his many years of work in the field on malaria have persuaded him that focusing on narrow, technical fixes will not …
The New Voices Fellows Class of 2019 took to the stage in Aspen, Colorado for an unforgettable evening of story-telling. Ten New Voices Fellows shared short, personal stories that transcended time and space – from a 1980 Bob Marley concert in Zimbabwe, to a present-day overpriced dinner in New York City, to a father’s 2010 …
Mosquitoes are often described as the most dangerous animals on earth, because the diseases they transmit, including malaria, dengue and Zika, cause more than 1 million deaths annually. But strategies for mitigating these threats remain far from adequate. Consider malaria, which, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), infected over 200 million people in 2017, …