Public Health Team Objectives

  • Identify potential, new or existing resistance issues. Set up Team Working Groups or Focal Points as necessary
  • Provide expert input into IRM initiatives with identified partners.
  • Preparation of  Public Health communication material
  • Develop IRAC methods for the housefly and mosquito
  • Develop a position paper on WHOPES discriminating rates

Team Leader: Mark Hoppe, Syngenta

The Public Health Team was formed in 2006 to continue the work initiated by a previous IRAC Vector Team and has the extended remit covering hygiene pests as well as vectors.  Most of the efforts have focused on forming links with key groups working in the vector control area (WHO, Gates Foundation, Innovative Vector Control Consortium IVCC etc.) and a key publication “Prevention and Management of Insecticide Resistance in Vectors and Pests of Public Health Importance” was published with inputs from these groups in January 2007.