My research interests are in the biology, ecology, and control of medically important insects and the transmission of their pathogens. My experience is largely field-based and over the past eight years I have worked on projects in several low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. My MSc was based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and involved investigating the susceptibility of Aedes mosquitoes to permethrin impregnated school uniforms in Thailand in an intervention aimed at reducing dengue incidence among school children. My PhD was based at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and focussed on blackflies (Simuliidae) and Onchocerca volvulus transmission in three formerly hyperendemic river blindness (onchocerciasis) foci in Uganda, Tanzania, and Cameroon. I am now working as a Research Fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch on an NIH-funded project investigating arbovirus emergence and reemergence in Latin America. I am mainly based at the Fundação de Medicina Tropical in Manaus, Brazil, where I focus on arbovirus exchange between humans, mosquitoes, and wildlife in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Email: adhendy@utmb.edu