Malaria Journal (May 2022)
Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control
- John B. Connolly,
- John D. Mumford,
- Debora C. M. Glandorf,
- Sarah Hartley,
- Owen T. Lewis,
- Sam Weiss Evans,
- Geoff Turner,
- Camilla Beech,
- Naima Sykes,
- Mamadou B. Coulibaly,
- Jörg Romeis,
- John L. Teem,
- Willy Tonui,
- Brian Lovett,
- Aditi Mankad,
- Abraham Mnzava,
- Silke Fuchs,
- Talya D. Hackett,
- Wayne G. Landis,
- John M. Marshall,
- Fred Aboagye-Antwi
Affiliations
- John B. Connolly
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
- John D. Mumford
- Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
- Debora C. M. Glandorf
- Independent Risk Assessor
- Sarah Hartley
- University of Exeter Business School
- Owen T. Lewis
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- Sam Weiss Evans
- Program On Science, Technology & Society, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Geoff Turner
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
- Camilla Beech
- Cambea Consulting Ltd
- Naima Sykes
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
- Mamadou B. Coulibaly
- Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako
- Jörg Romeis
- Research Division Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope
- John L. Teem
- Genetic Biocontrols LLC
- Willy Tonui
- Environmental Health and Safety (EHS Consultancy) Ltd
- Brian Lovett
- Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University
- Aditi Mankad
- CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO Land & Water
- Abraham Mnzava
- African Leaders Malaria Alliance
- Silke Fuchs
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
- Talya D. Hackett
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- Wayne G. Landis
- Institute of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, College of the Environment, Western Washington University
- John M. Marshall
- Divisions of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California
- Fred Aboagye-Antwi
- Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Sciences, University of Ghana
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04183-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 21,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Abstract Building on an exercise that identified potential harms from simulated investigational releases of a population suppression gene drive for malaria vector control, a series of online workshops identified nine recommendations to advance future environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications.
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