Speakers

Katie Anders is an Associate Professor and NHMRC Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Australia, and a member of the Monash Health and Climate Initiative. She leads applied public health research and implementation research to inform the targeting and scale-up of effective strategies for controlling dengue and other vector-borne diseases, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, and has research interests in the interactions between local and macro drivers of arboviral disease epidemiology and intervention effectiveness. Katie has >15 years international experience in epidemiological research and the design and implementation of field trials, including 10 years at the Monash-based World Mosquito Program establishing the evidence base for Wolbachia-based dengue control, and six years at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Katie gained her PhD from Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (2015) and a Masters in Control of Infectious Disease at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2006).