Mary Cameron is a Professor of Medical Entomology and Head of the Department of Disease Control (DCD) at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She has over 35 years’ experience in delivering international level field and laboratory research focusing on the surveillance and control of a wide range of vector-borne diseases. Mary has developed strong collaborative networks on Neglected Tropical Diseases in multiple disease endemic countries.
Affiliations
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Teaching
Between 2003-2017, Mary was the MSc Programme Director of Medical Entomology for Disease Control, formerly Biology and Control of Disease Vectors and Medical Parasitology and organised several face-to-face modules.
Currently, Mary is vice-chair of the examination board for MSc Medical Parasitology. She is a tutor, project supervisor, presents lectures and leads practicals for several modules:
3121 - Core Bacteriology & Virology - Peer Review
3122 – Core Parasitology and Entomology: Ectoparasites: Biology & Control & The peer review process,
3141 – Vector Sampling, Identification and Incrimination: Sampling, ID & incrimination of phlebotomine sandflies & Molecular xenomonitoring, and
3176 – Integrated Vector Management: Control of Leishmaniasis & Control of Mites and Lice.
Research
Mary is presently the Principal Investigator of a consortium investigating key biological knowledge gaps in our understanding of the ATSB vector control paradigm with partners at Centre de Recherches Entomologiques de Cotonou, Benin and Kenya Medical Research Institute, funded by IVCC. Mary is also a Co-I of a partnership led by Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture Design & Conservation with the Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania funded by the NoVo Foundation. The project will generate a risk-assessment of vector-borne diseases in urban Dar-es-Salaam based on deep learning and remote sensing. Mary is on the steering committee of a collaborative project with Wolf-Peter Schmidt (PI) and the Christian Medical College Vellore, funded by the MRC, to understand the epidemiology of scrub typhus and rickettsial infections in a highly endemic rural setting in south India, and is currently co-supervising 3 research degree students.
Until recently, she was the Principal Investigator of the Bill and Melinda Gates Programme: Setting the Post-Elimination Agenda for Kala-azar in India (see ). The focus of the operational research is to work towards sustained elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian Sub-continent. The work comprises four synergistic pillars: surveillance, mathematical modelling, disease transmission and health systems. The consortium consists of the following partners: with Indian Council of Medical Research, National Centre for Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme, Banaras Hindu University, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences RMRIMS, Institute of Public Health, PATH, UNION, CARE India, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
Selected Publications
