Role: Overall coordination of the Project, overseeing disbursement of funds and ensuring that these funds are spent in a timely fashion, and effectively, by the five sub-contractors. Ensure that research targets are met and that healthy numbers of publications are produced. In this regard provide supervision of a number of Masters, PhD and Post Doc students. On a personal level carry out research in a number of areas relevant to the Project.

Team: Parasitology component (Objective 2)

Role: Conducting field work in Tanzania, replicating the Zimbabwe monitoring studies, specifically to compare the situations in two dryland agro-ecosystems. Carrying out studies with local rural communities, using restricted application of insecticide to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention in Tanzanian settings. PhD project: A study of the ecology and population dynamics of Glossina species in western Serengeti.

Team: Sociological component (Objective 1)

Role: Carrying out sociological survey in Tanzania aimed at discerning KAP of marginalised rural people towards HAT and its control under various climate change scenarios. Designing the survey, in collaboration with other team members, creating all the appropriate forms and other necessary instruments. Analysing the resulting data and preparing publications and other material for dissemination.

Team: Meteorological component (Objective 3)

Role: Responsible for the core climate component of the study, including an analysis of the historical climate of the two study areas, and exploring the possible future climate by undertaking a climate change analysis using statistically downscaled projections from the latest Global Climate Models. Coordinating with others members of the group to integrate this information into the rest of the project.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: Analysing existing and new data. Constructing deterministic, ordinary, delayed and partial differential equation models of tsetse population dynamics. Simulating tsetse and trypanosome populations.

Team: Parasitology component (Objective 2)

Role: Advising on fieldwork in Tanzania and on laboratory analysis of field blood samples collected in Zimbabwe. Acting as advisor for one Masters student in Zimbabwe.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: Analysing tsetse dataset to investigate how climate change affects breeding ecology of tsetse flies. Independent research fellow at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Team: Parasitology component (Objective 2)

Role: Carrying out PhD studies on aspects of climate change and tsetse biology in Zimbabwe.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: PhD Project. Conducting experiments with various sampling devices in different habitats and varying levels of tsetse-host interactions. Collecting samples for analysis. Disbursement of funds in Zimbabwe.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: PhD project, University of Stellenbosch: contact between tsetse flies and humans under various meteorological conditions (temperature and rainfall). Comparing samples of two species (G. m. morsitans and G. pallidipes) differing in microclimate, measuring tsetse infection status. Investigating means of monitoring and reducing human-fly contact, for example, comparing catches in traps and non-human bait such as cattle with the risk of sleeping sickness. Employed by TCD.

Role: Designing field experiments and supervising field work in Zimbabwe, and advising in Tanzania. Analysing existing and new data. Simulation modelling of population dynamics of tsetse. Supervising graduate students from Zimbabwe.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: Investigating the economic and social impact of tsetse fly control in Zimbabwe. Independent research fellow at the Department of Economics, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Team: Sociological component (Objective 1)

Role: Technical support; development of field protocols for data collection (FGDs, interview guides); development of documents for the process of ethical clearance; field visit to support field team during FGDs.

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: MPhil project, University of Zimbabwe: Investigating how the physiological status (size, weight and fat content) of pupae is related to that of the emerging fly. Producing data for modelling vector population dynamics. Employed by TCD.

Team: Parasitology component (Objective 2)

Role: MSc project, University of Zimbabwe: Age-specific infection rates in female tsetse as a function of season and climate. Employed by TCD.

Team: Objective 3; Producing data for modelling vector population dynamics

Role: MSc project: An individual-based model of tsetse fly population dynamics: modelling an extensive mark-release-recapture experiment.

[Masters degree at Stellenbosch University completed with Distinction in December 2014].

Team: Objective 3

Role: MSc project: The modelling of African Animal trypanosomiasis: assessment of future risk of trypanosomiasis infection in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and ways of alleviating that risk.

[Masters degree at UKZN completed in December 2014. Has just been given a SACEMA bursary – funded by the project – to do a PhD].

Team: Modelling component (Objective 3)

Role: MSc project: Modelling the economics of trypanocides and insecticides-treated cattle interventions on trypanosomiasis disease within a multi-host population using delay differential equations.

Team: Sociological component (Objective 1)

Role: MA Project: Climate change, gender and perceived biting risk from tsetse flies in Tanzania: a case of communities neighbouring Ikorongo-Grumeti game reserves, Serengeti District.