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Thomas S. Churcher is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, insect science, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work largely addresses topics related to mosquito-borne diseases and control as well as malaria research and control. Additional areas of expertise include insect pest control strategies, viral infections and vectors, insect resistance and genetics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Thomas S. Churcher has published extensively, with articles appearing frequently in several scientific venues. The top publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square (Research Square), Malaria Journal, Parasites & Vectors, and Nature Communications.

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Ellie Sherrard-Smith, Ben Lambert, Joseph D. Challenger, Antoine Sanou, and Mark Rowland.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas S. Churcher include:

  • Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study (2020), published in The Lancet Global Health
  • The potential public health consequences of COVID-19 on malaria in Africa (2020), published in Nature Medicine
  • Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes as Vectors of Plasmodium vivax and falciparum, Horn of Africa, 2019 (2021), published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • A new WHO bottle bioassay method to assess the susceptibility of mosquito vectors to public health insecticides: results from a WHO-coordinated multi-centre study (2023), published in Parasites & Vectors
  • Inferring the epidemiological benefit of indoor vector control interventions against malaria from mosquito data (2022), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study.

    Alexandra B Hogan;Britta L Jewell;Ellie Sherrard-Smith;Juan F Vesga

  • Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-Based Evaluation of Intervention Strategies

    Jamie T. Griffin;T. Deirdre Hollingsworth;Lucy C. Okell;Thomas S. Churcher

  • Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination

    Teun Bousema;Jamie T. Griffin;Robert W. Sauerwein;David L. Smith

  • A novel multiple-stage antimalarial agent that inhibits protein synthesis

    Beatriz Baragaña;Irene Hallyburton;Marcus C. S. Lee;Marcus C. S. Lee;Neil R. Norcross

  • The importance of mosquito behavioural adaptations to malaria control in Africa.

    Michelle L. Gatton;Michelle L. Gatton;Nakul Chitnis;Nakul Chitnis;Thomas Churcher;Martin J. Donnelly

  • Mosquito feeding behavior and how it influences residual malaria transmission across Africa.

    Ellie Sherrard-Smith;Janetta E Skarp;Andrew D Beale;Christen Fornadel

  • River blindness: a success story under threat?

    María-Gloria Basáñez;Sébastien D. S Pion;Thomas S Churcher;Lutz P Breitling

  • Modelling the impact of vector control interventions on Anopheles gambiae population dynamics.

    Michael T. White;Jamie T. Griffin;Thomas S. Churcher;Neil M. Ferguson

  • The impact of pyrethroid resistance on the efficacy and effectiveness of bednets for malaria control in Africa.

    Thomas S Churcher;Natalie Lissenden;Jamie T Griffin;Jamie T Griffin;Eve Worrall

  • Mosquito feeding assays to determine the infectiousness of naturally infected Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriers.

    Teun Bousema;Teun Bousema;Rhoel R Dinglasan;Isabelle Morlais;Louis C. Gouagna

  • Predicting mosquito infection from Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte density and estimating the reservoir of infection

    Thomas S Churcher;Teun Bousema;Teun Bousema;Martin Walker;Chris Drakeley

  • Examining the human infectious reservoir for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in areas of differing transmission intensity

    Bronner P. Gonçalves;Melissa C. Kapulu;Melissa C. Kapulu;Patrick Sawa;Wamdaogo M. Guelbéogo

  • Effect of single-dose ivermectin on Onchocerca volvulus : a systematic review and meta-analysis

    María-Gloria Basáñez;Sébastien D S Pion;Eve Boakes;João A N Filipe

  • Measuring the blockade of malaria transmission – An analysis of the Standard Membrane Feeding Assay

    Thomas S. Churcher;Andrew M. Blagborough;Michael Delves;Chandra Ramakrishnan

  • Association between Response to Albendazole Treatment and β-Tubulin Genotype Frequencies in Soil-transmitted Helminths

    Aïssatou Diawara;Carli M. Halpenny;Thomas S. Churcher;Charles Mwandawiro

  • The potential public health consequences of COVID-19 on malaria in Africa.

    Ellie Sherrard-Smith;Alexandra B. Hogan;Arran Hamlet;Oliver J. Watson

  • The Potential Contribution of Mass Treatment to the Control of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

    Lucy C. Okell;Jamie T. Griffin;Immo Kleinschmidt;T. Déirdre Hollingsworth

  • Persistence of the emerging pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis outside the amphibian host greatly increases the probability of host extinction

    Kate M Mitchell;Thomas S Churcher;Trenton W.J Garner;Matthew C Fisher

  • A male and female gametocyte functional viability assay to identify biologically relevant malaria transmission-blocking drugs

    A. Ruecker;D. K. Mathias;U. Straschil;T. S. Churcher

  • Anopheles mortality is both age- and Plasmodium-density dependent: implications for malaria transmission

    Emma J Dawes;Thomas S Churcher;Shijie Zhuang;Robert E Sinden

Frequent Co-Authors

Teun Bousema
Teun Bousema Radboud University
Robert E. Sinden
Robert E. Sinden Imperial College London
Chris Drakeley
Chris Drakeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Isabelle Morlais
Isabelle Morlais Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Robert W. Sauerwein
Robert W. Sauerwein Radboud University
Roger K. Prichard
Roger K. Prichard McGill University
Kjerstin Lanke
Kjerstin Lanke Radboud University
Roch K. Dabiré
Roch K. Dabiré Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé
Parfait Awono-Ambene
Parfait Awono-Ambene Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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