Ulrike Fillinger MSc PhD
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- LSHTM
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Ulrike Fillinger obtained a MSc in Biology (1994) and PhD in Ecology/Entomology (1998) from Heidelberg University, Germany. She originally worked for the German Mosquito Control Association from 1998-2000 before she went to Kenya to join the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) as a visiting scientist. In 2003 she took up a post-doc position at Durham University and joined LSHTM as Research Fellow in 2009. She is based full time overseas at icipe’s Thomas Odhiambo field station at Lake Victoria, western Kenya.
Ulrike is an ecologist and public health entomologist with over 16 years of experience on operational mosquito control and has been based in East Africa for the past 10 years. She was instrumental in the initiation and implementation of the Urban Malaria Control Program (UMCP) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She has evaluated the operational use of larval source management (LSM) for malaria control in different ecological settings in East Africa, studied the added benefit of LSM to personal protection in an integrated vector management approach and developed tools for operational implementation. She has a keen interest in community-based approaches for malaria control in Africa and enjoys interdisciplinary research on malaria control working in close collaboration with social scientists, geographers, epidemiologists and health economists.
Affiliation
Teaching
Ulrike supervises PhD students and hosts summer field projects for MSc students interested in mosquito ecology and control.
Research
Ulrike is the local PI (Kenya) on a NIH funded 5-year project (2009-2014) to study the oviposition behaviour of the afro-tropical malaria vector An. gambiae. The research is based on a number of hypotheses all leading to the development of more efficient larval control intervention strategies and the development of a new monitoring tool for gravid anophelines. Specific objectives are to investigate differences in the bacterial and chemical profiles between habitats with and without larvae and to determine if oviposition attractants and stimulants can be utilized in an ‘attract-and-kill’ strategy for monitoring and controlling vector mosquitoes in an IVM approach for malaria control.
Other research activities include the testing of novel larvicides.
Research areas
- Clinical trials
- Environment
- Insects
- Public health
- Vector control
Disciplines
- Vector biology
Disease and Health Conditions
- Malaria
- Vector borne disease
Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Countries
- Kenya
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Selected publications
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Productivity of Malaria Vectors from Different Habitat Types in the Western Kenya Highlands
Ndenga, B.A.; Simbauni, J.A.; Mbugi, J.P.; Githeko, A.K.; Fillinger, U.
Plos One, 2011; 6(4)
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Large-scale use of mosquito larval source management for malaria control in Africa: a cost analysis.
Worrall, E. ; Fillinger, U. ;
Malar J, 2011; 10:338
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Larval source management for malaria control in Africa: myths and reality.
Fillinger, U. ; Lindsay, S.W. ;
Malar J, 2011; 10:353
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Mosquito larval source management for controlling malaria
Thwing, J.; Fillinger, U.; Gimnig, J.; Newman, R.; Lindsay, S.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011; (1)
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The importance of drains for the larval development of lymphatic filariasis and malaria vectors in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.
Castro, M.C. ; Kanamori, S. ; Kannady, K. ; Mkude, S. ; Killeen, G.F. ; Fillinger, U. ;
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2010; 4(5):e693
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Identifying the most productive breeding sites for malaria mosquitoes in The Gambia.
Fillinger, U.; Sombroek, H.; Majambere, S.; van Loon, E.; Takken, W.; Lindsay, S.W.;
Malar J, 2009; 8:62
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Integrated malaria vector control with microbial larvicides and insecticide-treated nets in western Kenya: a controlled trial
Fillinger, U.; Ndenga, B.; Githeko, A.; Lindsay, S.W.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009; 87(9):655-65
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