Education
Curriculum Vitae
Current Projects
At present, I am working as a post-doc in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand. Here, we just started a project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the entomological determinants of dengue. It is an extension of a project carried out in Peru on the entomological assumptions of dengue control. The goal of the project is to define the quantitative relationships between entomological risk and human infection with dengue viruses (DV). Our research will test the basic assumption of the vector control approach: an increase in entomological risk leads to an increase in DV transmission and the incidence of severe forms of the disease.
The strength of this project is that entomological, serological and socio-economic data will be collected simulataneously in close co-operation with the Virology team already present in Kamphaeng Phet. With the help of GIS software and many other colleagues at the Armed Forces Research Institute for Medical Sciences (AFRIMS, Bangkok) and San Diego State University, we hope we are able to identify the forces behind the spatial and temporal patterns in vector dynamics and dengue incidence.
Previous Projects
I will complete my PhD-degree officially in November 2003 at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Within my PhD project I attempted to elucidate mechanisms that regulate the population dynamics of malaria vectors and relate these to malaria transmission and malaria risk. Special attention was given to malaria transmission in highland areas and the role of different vector species in malaria transmission in western Kenya. It is expected that in the near future environmental change may seriously affect malaria transmission in highland areas and the composition of and dynamics in vector populations.
Publications
Koenraadt & Takken (2003), Med Vet Entomol, 17, 61-66
Koenraadt et al. (2003), Malaria J, 2: 20
Contact me:
cjmkoenraadt@ucdavis.edu
