Citizen Science as an Approach for Responding to the Threat of Anopheles stephensi in Africa

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• Alternative Title:
  Citiz Sci
• Personal Author:
  CARNEY, RYAN M. ; LONG, ALEX ; LOW, RUSSANNE D. ; ZOHDY, SARAH ; PALMER, JOHN R. B. ; ELIAS, PETER ; BARTUMEUS, FREDERIC ; NJOROGE, LABAN ; MUNIAFU, MAINA ; UELMEN, JOHNNY A. ; RAHOLA, NIL ; CHELLAPPAN, SRIRAM
• Description:
  Even as novel technologies emerge and medicines advance, pathogen-transmitting mosquitoes pose a deadly and accelerating public health threat. Detecting and mitigating the spread of | in Africa is now critical to the fight against malaria, as this invasive mosquito poses urgent and unprecedented risks to the continent. Unlike typical African vectors of malaria, | breeds in both natural and artificial water reservoirs, and flourishes in urban environments. With | beginning to take hold in heavily populated settings, citizen science surveillance supported by novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies may offer impactful opportunities to guide public health decisions and community-based interventions. Coalitions like the Global Mosquito Alert Consortium (GMAC) and our freely available digital products can be incorporated into enhanced surveillance of | and other vector-borne public health threats. By connecting local citizen science networks with global databases that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), we are leveraging a powerful suite of tools and infrastructure for the early detection of, and rapid response to, (re)emerging vectors and diseases.
• Keywords:
  Africa Anopheles Stephensi Artificial Intelligence Citizen Science Malaria Mosquito
• Source:
  Citiz Sci. 8(1)
• Pubmed ID:
  38616822
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11010391
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f1ba417b159a71285d246a8f4a2950942d13e39a157ecb0dc368723039e21357
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/154368/cdc_154368_DS1.pdf
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