CDC, Georgia, United States
Audrey Lenhart, PhD, MPH, is the Chief of the Entomology Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is based in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, where she serves as a senior agency expert on public health entomology. The Entomology Branch provides technical assistance throughout the Americas, Asia, and Africa regarding vector surveillance and control, including co-implementing the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) across its 30 focus countries. Dr. Lenhart serves as a senior advisor to PMI and coordinates CDC’s activities in the USAID-funded Latin America and Caribbean Regional Malaria Program. She also leads CDC’s VecNet Program, which supports regional public health entomology networks in 7 regions across the globe. She previously led the Entomology Branch’s Insecticide Resistance and Vector Control Team, which included a research group that focused on the biology and control of mosquitoes and laboratory activities centered on the molecular mechanisms that cause insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of human disease. Dr. Lenhart is a founding member of PAHO’s Technical Advisory Group for Public Health Entomology in the Americas, and is co-chair of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM AST