Élodie Vajda is an Entomologist and Senior Program Manager at UCSF’s Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI). Currently, Élodie provides support to several Ministries of Health’s entomological surveillance programs and to several cross-collaborative operational research studies in Africa and Latin America. She leads and contributes to technical, program management, and implementation activities. In particular, she manages a portfolio of work involving a cohort of nine programmatic research fellows in malaria entomology based in the DRC, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Prior to her joining the MEI, Élodie worked as Regional Entomologist for the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands (based in Guam) for the Zika Emergency and Preparedness Project (PIHOA/CDC).

Élodie holds an MSc in Entomology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a master’s degree in International Public Health from The University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. She is currently conducting her PhD (Entomology) on the evaluation novel bite prevention tools in the Greater Mekong Subregion at the University of Basel/Swiss TPH.