Background
Armel Tedjou joined CRID as a PhD student in 2017. His aim was to assess the entomological risk of emergence of outbreaks of arboviral diseases in Cameroon, as part of a Wellcome Trust project granted to Dr. Basile Kamgang at CRID. Before this, he had obtained a Master’s degree in Parasitology and Ecology from the University of Yaoundé I, where he evaluated the role of Anopheline Fauna in malaria transmission in a rubber cultivated area in Niete, South-Cameroon. Subsequently, he took on the role of Consultant at the Malaria Consortium-Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (MC-CCAM) within the Malaria Prevention project, which was funded by Archive Global. This project focuses on evaluating the effects of renovated houses on malaria prevalence and entomological indices
Furthermore, Armel has been working as a Consultant at the Ministry of Health within the NMCP and the Arboviral National Unit Surveillance, and collaborating with other partners such as PMI, where he serves as one of the entomologists involved in routine entomological surveillance activities
Research:
- Areas of interest:
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Keywords: Malaria, Arboviruses, Anopheles, Aedes, Molecular biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Bioinformatics. Top line topics: Development of point-Of-Care pathogens diagnostic tools. Distribution of Aedes vectors and interactions between vectors and virus, Monitoring the presence of the invasive malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, in Central Africa |
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Armel is working presently at CRID as a Postdoctoral research fellow working on different projects:
– In a Gates Foundation funded project, he aims to develop a point-of-care diagnostic platform to monitor drug and insecticide resistant markers on the field, with the purpose of providing to the NMCP, a rapid, reliable, field-deployable, and friendly-usable, a malaria surveillance system, not only in major cities, but also in remote settings. This project will be implemented with the collaboration of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the VectorCAM, and the Hyris Ltd. company
– Armel has been able to secure small grants as a Principal investigator since 2022:
– The PAMCA Seed Funds project ($3,000; 2022-2023) aimed evaluate the role of secondary vectors in malaria transmission in Cameroon),
– The Hamish Ogston Foundation (HOF) project ($5,000; 2023-2024), the RAFT Research Fund (RRF) project ($60,000; 2024-2025), and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project (Co-investigator, 2024-2028), aimed to monitor the presence of Anopheles stephensi in Central Africa. This vector has been qualified as a malaria threat, and he is associated with the exponential increase of malaria prevalence in countries where he has been reported.
- Within your department, are you a member of research areas/research groups:
Member of the Arbovirus research unit, Member of the Wondji Research Unit, Member of the Health and safety Committee
- Master students
NGUEFANG KETCHEJEU Estelle KELLY
- Other relevant expertise, professional memberships
– Entomological expert of the President Malaria Initiative (PMI) project
– Entomological expert of the National Unit of Surveillance of Arboviral Diseases
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