Mrs Marta Moreno Leirana
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Affiliations
Department of Infection Biology
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Centres
Malaria Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Teaching
2019-2020: Supervisor MSc Control of Infectious Diseases Summer project, LSHTM.
2019- 2020 : Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice (Module 3195) (3 students). LSHTM
2017- Coordinator Workshop “Anopheles darlingi morphological identification and its relevance in malaria research”. May, 2017. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
2016- “Vectores de la Malaria: Importancia y Aplicación en los Planes de Manejo Vectorial”. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana. September 2016. Iquitos, Peru.
2014 -Blood meal detection in Anopheles darlingi. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2014 -Course “Certificado en Entomología Médica con Énfasis en la Vigilancia y Control de Vectores de Malaria y Dengue”. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2010- “Medical and Veterinary Entomology Course (BMS552)”. School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, USA.
2008- Workshop “Malaria in Misiones, Argentina: vector identification and transmission patterns of the disease” coordinated by Ministry of Health in Misiones Province (Argentina) and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain).
Universidad de Posadas, Argentina.
2005-2007 Teaching in Tropical Pediatric Diplome. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Coordinator and teaching in “Practical Course of Diagnostic in Tropical Diseases”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant in “Nursery in Tropical Pathology”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2006 Coordination and teaching in “Course of Malaria: clinical, research and control”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2019- 2020 : Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice (Module 3195) (3 students). LSHTM
2017- Coordinator Workshop “Anopheles darlingi morphological identification and its relevance in malaria research”. May, 2017. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
2016- “Vectores de la Malaria: Importancia y Aplicación en los Planes de Manejo Vectorial”. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana. September 2016. Iquitos, Peru.
2014 -Blood meal detection in Anopheles darlingi. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2014 -Course “Certificado en Entomología Médica con Énfasis en la Vigilancia y Control de Vectores de Malaria y Dengue”. NAMRU-6, Lima, Peru.
2010- “Medical and Veterinary Entomology Course (BMS552)”. School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, USA.
2008- Workshop “Malaria in Misiones, Argentina: vector identification and transmission patterns of the disease” coordinated by Ministry of Health in Misiones Province (Argentina) and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain).
Universidad de Posadas, Argentina.
2005-2007 Teaching in Tropical Pediatric Diplome. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Coordinator and teaching in “Practical Course of Diagnostic in Tropical Diseases”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant in “Nursery in Tropical Pathology”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
2006 Coordination and teaching in “Course of Malaria: clinical, research and control”. National School of Health and National Center of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Research
Malaria vectors, Plasmodium transmission, mosquito bionomics
Research Area
Disease control
Insects
Protozoa
Vector control
Entomology
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Infectious diseases
Emerging infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Country
Burkina Faso
Gambia
Peru
Cape Verde
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Infectivity of patent Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriers to mosquitoes: establishing capacity to investigate the infectious reservoir of malaria in a low-transmission setting in The Gambia.
2021
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Integrating Parasitological and Entomological Observations to Understand Malaria Transmission in Riverine Villages in the Peruvian Amazon.
2021
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Brazil's first free-mating laboratory colony of Nyssorhynchus darlingi.
2019
REVISTA DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE MEDICINA TROPICAL
Malaria vector species in Amazonian Peru co-occur in larval habitats but have distinct larval microbial communities.
2019
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases