Dr Jason Richardson is senior technical coordinator of the Next Generation Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Project at IVCC. Dr Richardson’s work focuses on improving access to new IRS products and shaping the IRS market to expand the use of state-of-the-art IRS tools and methods. He also works closely with and provides technical support to a matrixed team of IVCC portfolio, program, and product managers working on a variety of new tools for vector control.

Dr Richardson was previously commissioned as an officer and medical entomologist in the US Army. Over the following decade, Dr Richardson served in a variety of applied public health and entomology related positions throughout the US working on a wide range of vector-borne diseases, including Lyme disease, hantavirus, and plague. While stationed in Kisumu, Kenya, he directed the Entomology Program of the Walter Reed Project in collaboration with the Kenyan Medical Research Institute. In 2007, he moved to Bangkok, Thailand to lead the Department of Entomology at the Armed Forces Research Institute Medical Sciences. During this period, Dr Richardson coordinated teams working on a wide range of vector and rodent-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, leishmaniasis, leptospirosis, and hantaviruses. In 2010, he served as chief of the Entomology Branch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Dr Richardson capped off his military service by managing and directing translational research programs focused on developing new tools to prevent mosquito-borne diseases as the research liaison officer at the Armed Forces Pest Management Board. He retired from the US Army in 2016 after service as a medical entomologist for 22 years.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Vanderbilt University in 1992 and a master’s degree in Entomology from Clemson University in 1994. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he conducted research on dengue viruses and quantitative aspects of vector competence of Aedes aegypti.