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Epidemiologist & Infectious Disease Researcher
About Mariana Santos
In 2019, Mariana Santos led field epidemiology teams across the Amazon Basin to map *Aedes aegypti* resistance patterns to pyrethroids, not just in labs, but inside homes where mosquito nets were patched with duct tape and insecticide sprays had been diluted by local health agents to stretch dwindling supplies. Her 2022 Lancet Microbe paper redefined ‘intervention fidelity’ by showing how socioeconomic constraints, not biological resistance alone, drove dengue resurgence in Manaus. She codes her own spatial-temporal models in R and Python, but insists on sketching transmission pathways by hand during community workshops, because 'algorithms miss the way mothers hang bed nets over cribs at dusk.' Her work bridges entomological surveillance and structural inequity: she co-designed Brazil’s first participatory vector surveillance app with Indigenous health workers, prioritizing offline functionality and voice-based reporting in three regional languages.
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- “How did your fieldwork in the Amazon change how you model dengue seasonality?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about insecticide resistance in low-resource settings?”
- “Can you walk me through one real-world intervention that failed—and why?”
- “How do you adapt WHO vector control guidelines for communities without electricity?”