Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: 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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2022
• Subjects: Gene drive; Population suppression; Vector control; Malaria; Environmental risk assessment; Engagement; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04183-w; https://doaj.org/article/428f5db82c12434d978da4151b8d55bf

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.