Mary M. Cameron FRES is a medical entomologist in the United Kingdom. In 2019 she was the Professor of Medical Entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Education and career

Cameron obtained a BSc in Zoology in 1983 from Bedford College (now Royal Holloway, University of London) and then a PhD in Entomology in 1987 from the University of London.[1]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and then a research fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, before moving to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995 as a lecturer, where she is now[when?] Professor of Medical Entomology.[2]

Research

Cameron carries out field and laboratory research focusing on the surveillance and control of a wide range of vector-borne diseases, particularly leishmaniasis. She works internationally and she is a member of the World Health Organisation's Regional Technical Advisory Group focussing on Kala-azar disease elimination in South-East Asia.[3]

She is editor of the Royal Entomological Society's journal Medical and Veterinary Entomology.[4] In 2013 she co-edited a book Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors published by the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International.[5]

Cameron is cofounder and director of Vecotech, a spin-off company of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[6]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Mary Cameron". LSHTM. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Professor Mary Cameron | LCNTDR". www.londonntd.org. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Mary Cameron | GNATWORK". www.gnatwork.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Medical and Veterinary Entomology". Royal Entomological Society. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors". CABI.org. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Home". Vecotech. Retrieved 15 December 2019.