Dr Sylvester Coleman

Biography

Sylvester Coleman has over 15 years of extensive on-the-ground experience leading entomological surveillance activities in Ghana and Malawi, two vastly different ecological and cultural settings.

Currently Sylvester is leading investigations into mosquito population dynamics and behaviour within an emerging agricultural landscape in southern Malawi for the National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded Shire Valley Vector Control Project. He is an advocate for a One Health strategy to reduce vector-borne disease and recently secured an award to pilot the use of ivermectin in livestock for controlling zoophilic malaria vectors and ectoparasites in cattle.

Research interests

Sylvester’s research to date has focused on improving the efficacy of vector control interventions through robust surveillance. He is developing expertise leading operational research into the impacts of anthropogenic changes on mosquito borne disease transmission dynamics and vector control efficacy, to inform the development of more effective and sustainable vector control strategies.

Selected research publications

Repeated biannual cross-sectional surveys in primary schools set baseline seasonal and spatial surveillance for malaria and schistosomiasis in the Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP), Malawi – Journal: Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases – Published: 9th January 2026

Trends and patterns of insecticide susceptibility of Anopheles gambiae between 2015 and 2020: implications for malaria vector control interventions in Ghana – Journal: Malaria Journal – Published: 11th December 2025

Entomological impact of three years of clothianidin-based indoor residual spraying in two high malaria endemic districts in Côte d’Ivoire – Journal: Malaria Journal – Published: 21st November 2025

Baseline susceptibility of Anopheles gambiae to clothianidin in northern Ghana – Journal: Malaria Journal – Published: 1st December 2024

Biting behaviour, spatio-temporal dynamics, and the insecticide resistance status of malaria vectors in different ecological zones in Ghana – Journal: Parasites and Vectors – Published: 1st December 2024

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