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U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
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Dr. Audrey Lenhart is a research entomologist and leader of the Integrated Vector Management Team in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria at CDC’s Center for Global Health in Atlanta. She is currently leading CDC’s international vector-related activities for the Zika response and coordinates CDC’s entomology activities related to malaria in the Americas. She also heads a molecular laboratory that investigates mechanisms of insecticide resistance with a focus on New World anophelines and Aedes aegypti.