Public Engagement: Visit to Brazil and Focus Group (August/September 2019)

Our public engagement activities during the last 17 months prior to 01/05/2020 are varied. They include two participatory focus groups that took place in August/September 2019 with the Brazilian environmental managers and health workers from Recife and Campina Grande in order show case the new application (ZIKA web and mobile phone app) developed to support their efforts of monitoring mosquito populations that transmits arboviruses (e.g. Zika, Dengue and so on etc.) and for early warning outbreaks of such mosquitoes.

Image 1: UCL Researchers team and Co-I Prof Wellington P. dos Santos with Public health officers, environmental managers and agents at the Environmental Health Agency in Recife. Picture was taken after delivering a focus group on the showcased web and mobile phone app

Image 2: PI Prof Patty Kostkova and Co-I Prof Tiago Massoni are with managers at the Environmental Health Agency in Campina Grande showcasing the web application for monitoring health worker’s progressing in surveillance of mosquitoes in residential areas.