CHANDRE Fabrice
Résumé
Dr Fabrice Chandre is a medical entomologist from the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), Montpellier, France with more than 25 years research expertise in vector control and genetics of insecticide resistance. He has been the head of the Vector Control Strategies Group in the Infectious Diseases and Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control Research Unit, and of the WHO Collaborating Center for testing and evaluation of insecticide products for vector control in public health until 2020. He is currently an expert member of the Vector Control Advisory Group of WHO. From 2014 to 2017, he has served as the director of the National Center for Expertise on Vectors – an institutional consortium that supported the french Ministries of Health and Agricultural in prevention and management of vector borne diseases in France and its oversea territories. He currently coordinates the Vectopole Sud, a network of platforms dedicated to research on vectors and pests in Montpellier. He has also contributed to the writing of several guidelines for testing the efficacy of insecticides/repellents and the test procedures for resistance monitoring in mosquitoes. Dr Chandre has led field research programs in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Benin and published extensively on the characterization of mechanisms of insecticide resistance and their impacts in major vectors of malaria or arboviruses.