Researcher
RIVM, Utrecht, Netherlands
Marieta Braks (1969) is a medical entomologist with the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands. After studying biology at the University of Utrecht, she obtained her Ph.D. in Entomology from the Wageningen University in 1999. Subsequently, she worked seven years in the USA first as a postdoc at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory and at the Entomology Laboratory of the University of California at Riverside and later as an employee of the Department of Vector - borne diseases of the California State Department of Public Health in Sacramento. With extensive experience in the surveillance and control of vectors and diseases, she returned to the Netherlands to work at the Centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology of the RIVM in 2007. In addition to national activities, she takes part in international networks and projects related to vector-borne diseases in Europe and the Caribbean. Since 2014 she is a member of the consortium Vbornet and VectorNet, the European Network of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, which she led the last 4 years. Since February of 2023 she also has a permanent teaching position (one day/week) at the Centre of Environmental Science of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
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213 - There is nothing simple about vector control
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