Dr Angela Harris

Angela is a consultant with the IVCC technical team, specializing in field entomology and supporting a number of different initiatives across the portfolio. Angela holds a PhD in insecticide resistance and genetic control of Aedes aegypti from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a MSc in Medical Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. With over 15 years of experience controlling a variety of insect vectors of disease across multiple geographies; her previous roles have included working with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, managing multiple field operations and operational research projects. She led the CDC vector control response to Zika in Puerto Rico in 2016 and subsequently went on to lead the conception and development of the Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit. Prior to this she was a Gates Global Health Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, where she worked on the Neglected Tropical Diseases team, managing the vector control portfolio. Here her experience varied from being on the ground working with local and national governments to strategizing building consortia and collaborations for the implementation of programs.