Bethanie is a molecular entomologist currently pursuing her doctoral studies on the Joint PhD Programme for Global Health, a collaboration between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Nagasaki University. Her primary research focusses on using next generation sequencing to understand the molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes from Sub-Saharan Africa. Bethanie’s research projects span multiple countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Cote d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Guinea, Benin, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The first chapter of Bethanie’s PhD, outlining the differences in the microbiota of deltamethrin resistant and susceptible Anopheles has been published in Spectrum Microbiology. Bethanie has also contributed to six other publications, ranging from a systematic review about vector control in humanitarian emergencies, commissioned by WHO Global Malaria Program (GMP) to analysis of a 3 year, cluster-randomised clinical trial looking the effects of deployment of novel insecticide treated nets on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors.

Bethanie serves as the PhD student representative on the steering committee of the LSHTM malaria centre, an interdisciplinary network of over 300 researchers. She has supervised MSc student projects and regularly teaches on the Medical Entomology and Medical Parasitology MScs at LSHTM. She co-led a comprehensive in-person molecular biology training course at the Institut national de Recherche Biomedicale (INRB) in Kinshasa, DRC, where theoretical and practical laboratory training was delivered, in French, to local researchers.

Bethanie is a recipient of the World-leading Innovative and Smart Education (WISE) scholarship, funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan. She has also received the 2020-2021 Jocelyn Hughes Malaria Research and Travel Grant which enabled her to conduct fieldwork in Tanzania. Bethanie was awarded a travel award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) to attend and present at the ASTMH conference in 2022. She has also received travel awards to present at the Arthropod Genomics Symposium in Indiana, USA and Anti-Vec Annual Meeting in Kenya.