Florence Fouque

Biography

 Responsible for overseeing the unit’s strategy and direction. Dr Florence Fouque has been the leader of TDR’s unit on vectors, environment and society, since September 2014. Dr Fouque is a French national with a broad range of research, teaching and management experience in vector-borne diseases, most recently as head of the Laboratory of Medical Entomology at the Pasteur Institute in Guadeloupe. For the last 20 years, Dr Fouque has worked as an entomologist in the International Network of the Pasteur Institutes in several countries, managing vector biology and control projects in different ecological, socio-economic and political environments. Her first overseas position in French Guiana, where she worked on both urban vectors and rural vectors in the Amazonian forest and ecosystem, helped shape her approach that emphazises community involvement and communication.

Research Interest

 She worked through several dengue epidemics where there were different needs for the rural and urban creole communities. “We still have a long way to go to control these vector-borne disease epidemics,” she says, “so I am very happy to be at TDR to lead studies on the connections between the environment, society and vectors, where we will continue to develop strong, community-based solutions.”