TY - JOUR AU1 - Reiter, Paul AB - EE 16-3-Reiter_p2.qxd 30-6-05 9:52 am Page 649 EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO HOUSE OF LORDS: INQUIRY ON ‘ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE’ Professor Paul Reiter Director, Insects and Infectious Diseases Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. Email: preiter@pasteur.fr INTRODUCTION I am a specialist in the natural history and biology of mosquitoes, the transmission dynamics and epidemiology of the diseases they transmit, and strategies for their control. My entire career, more than thirty years, has been devoted to this complex subject. My research has included malaria, filariasis, dengue, yellow fever, St Louis encephalitis and West Nile encephalitis. My research has taken me to many countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific. I spent 21 years as a Research Scientist for the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC). At present, I am a Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, and am responsible for building a new unit of Insects and Infectious Disease. I have been a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Vector Biology and Control since 1998, and have served on WHO Scientific Working Group (SWG) on Insect Disease Vectors and Human Health and several other UN panels. I have served as a consultant TI - Evidence Submitted to House of Lords: Inquiry on ‘Aspects of the Economics of Climate Change’ JF - Energy & Environment DO - 10.1260/0958305054672448 DA - 2005-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/evidence-submitted-to-house-of-lords-inquiry-on-aspects-of-the-fTLWgOYxq1 SP - 649 EP - 657 VL - 16 IS - 3-4 DP - DeepDyve