Kathy Kreppel

Kathy Kreppel is the Unit Head of the Emerging Infectious Diseases department at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Belgium and an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Liverpool, focusing on climate impacts on plague epidemiology in Madagascar.

Her research expertise includes disease vector ecology, zoonotic infections, and the One Health approach. Key areas of focus are malaria vectors, arboviroses, and interdisciplinary approaches to rodent-borne diseases in African countries. She has led projects such as GroundingEthics (WHO-funded) and Scabies1 (Flemish Government), addressing climate change, dengue surveillance, and vector control strategies.

Her work integrates environmental and social factors, with recent studies on dengue risk assessment in Tanzania and malaria vector breeding preferences in Zanzibar. She collaborates extensively in Africa and Cuba, emphasizing capacity-building in tropical disease research.