Associate Professor Katie Anders is an NHMRC Research Fellow in the Planetary Health division of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, and a member of the Monash Health and Climate Initiative. Her research interests are in the generation and dissemination of knowledge to support scale-up of effective strategies for controlling dengue and other vector-borne diseases, and in the interactions between local and macro drivers of arboviral disease epidemiology and intervention effectiveness, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Katie has extensive international experience in epidemiological research and public health practice, with expertise in the design and implementation of field trials, disease surveillance, and clinical research. Until December 2024, Katie was Director of Impact Assessment at the World Mosquito Program (WMP), a Monash University translational research program and not-for-profit company, where she collaborated with partners in 14 countries in Asia-Pacific and the Americas on a program of epidemiological and implementation research to evaluate the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and scalability of WMP's Wolbachia mosquito replacement method for control of dengue and other Aedes-borne viruses. Katie co-led the first cluster randomised control trial of Wolbachia for dengue control in Indonesia, and her work has contributed to the development of WHO normative guidance and national guidelines.

 

Katie previously spent six years at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where her research was focussed on the epidemiology of dengue and other viral infections in young children, and prior to that worked in infectious disease surveillance at the (former) UK Health Protection Agency in London. Katie undertook her PhD studies with Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and a Masters in Control of Infectious Disease at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.