Dr Sarah Moore is research scientist at Ifakara Health Institute. Trained as a vector ecologist, she specializes in the chemical ecology and control of Anopheles mosquitoes with a focus on new and existing methods of repelling mosquitoes to protect individuals, households and communities. This includes repellents, repellent treated clothing and odour baited traps.

Since working in Tanzania and witnessing the elegance of bednets as a malaria control tool in this setting, she has branched out into the evaluation of new indoor vector control tools including bednets and insecticides used for indoor spraying with new combinations of active ingredients or longer lasting formulations. As her knowledge of vector control deepened, she has added epidemiological evaluations of vector control tools to her research portfolio. Her work is dedicated to accurately measuring the efficacy of vector control tools using appropriate experimental design and data analysis in an open and collaborative way, and supporting others to build their own capacity to be able to do the same.

At the Ifakara Health Institute, Dr Moore leads the Good Laboratory Practice accreditation for the insecticide testing facility. She also supervises doctoral level trainees enrolled at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute, University of Basel, where she also serves as a group leader. In this way, she hopes to assist the global malaria control community to respond to the ever-shifting vector control environment to achieve malaria eradication in a timely and cost effective manner