Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Name: Prof. Coccia Mario
Affiliation: Arizona State University, United States
Interests: origin, evolution and diffusion of technology; artificial intelligence in medicine; evolution of science; nano-, micro-, meso-, and macro-scale aspects of materials and technologies for sustainable development

Editorial Board Members

Name: Prof. Yu Shen
Affiliation: Nanjing Forestry University, China
Interests: biological effects of environmental organic pollutants

Name: Prof. Yiannis G. Matsinos
Affiliation: University of the Aegean, Greece
Interests: ecological modelling; environmental statistics; population viability analysis; acoustic ecology

Name: Prof. Phoebe Koundouri
Affiliation: Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Interests: environmental and natural resource economics; statistics and econometrics; integrated systems mathematical modelling; policy design and analysis; stakeholder participatory approach

Name: Dr. Burcu Kucuk Bicer
Affiliation: Gazi University, Turkey
Interests: public health; medical education, health informatics; cancers; child health; chronic diseases; tobacco

Name: Prof. Sang-Ryong Lee
Affiliation: Dongguk University, Korea
Interests: environmental Analysis; environmental biotechnology; environmental pollution

Name: Dr. Dimitris Kotzias
Affiliation: Former Senior Official of the European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Italy
Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; air sampling; environmental pollution; atmospheric pollution; indoor air pollution; analytical chemistry; photochemistry; photocatalysis

Name: Dr. George Efthymiou
Affiliation: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Greece
Interests: the examination of the wind flow field and the dispersion of airborne materials in the urban and industrial environments

Name: Prof. Piotr Kaminski
Affiliation: Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Interests: environmental Ecology; environmental medicine; ecophysiology

Name: Prof. Abdesslam Boutayeb
Affiliation: University Mohamed Premier, Morocco
Interests: public health; health equity; social determinants; mathematical modelling

Name: Prof. Rodrigo Rosario Cruz
Affiliation:Autonomous Guerrero State University, Mexico
Interests: veterinary sciences; parasitology entomology; agriculture microbiology; molecular biology; biochemistry; biotechnology; environmental science; parasitic diseases; genetic analysis; zoonotic diseases; tropical diseases; infectious disease epidemiology; molecular diagnostics

Name: Dr. Ashraf Abu A’aqoulah
Affiliation: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
Interests: public health; health services management; leadership in health services; health systems management; healthcare services quality; patient safety

Name: Prof. Haleama Al Sabbah
Affiliation: Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates
Interests: maternal and child health; environmental health; public health nutrition; epidemiology; non-communicable diseases; health data infrastructure

Name: Dr. Qiaochu Xue
Affiliation: Emory University, United States
Interests: nutritional science; epidemiology; chronic diseases; pharmaco-epidemiology

Name: Dr. Rashid Menhas
Affiliation: Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Interests: medical sociology; rural sociology; sustainable development; qualitative and quantitative research; exercise & health psychology

Name: Dr. Sebastiano Venturi
Affiliation: Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Italy
Interests: iodine deficiency; carcinogenesis; oral health; cesium and pancreatic cancer

Name: Dr. Hadi Tehrani
Affiliation: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Interests: health promotion

Name: Prof. Delenasaw Yewhalaw
Affiliation: Jimma University, Ethiopia
Interests: tropical medicine parasitology; infectious diseases public, environmental & occupational health microbiology

Name: Dr. Weitao Huang
Affiliation: Hunan Normal University, China
Interests: aptamer; graphene; logic; DNA; devices

Name: Dr. Syed Tahir Abbas Naqvi
Affiliation: University of London, United Kingdom
Interests: AI; computer vision; federated learning

Name: Prof. Elyor Berdimurodov
Affiliation: National University of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan
Interests: organic synthesis; physical chemistry; quantum chemistry; DFT calculations

Name: Prof. Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye
Affiliation: Makerere University, Uganda
Interests: data analysis; monitoring and evaluation; applied biostatistics; applied epidemiology

Name: Dr. Buhari Dogan
Affiliation: Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey
Interests: circular economy; green trade; energy finance; carbon finance

Name: Dr. Siyu Ren
Affiliation: Nankai University, China
Interests: environmental policy; ecological economics; energy economics

Name: Dr. Muhammad Tufail
Affiliation: Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Interests: economic development

Name: Prof. Dr. Firat Emir
Affiliation: Final International University, Turkey
Interests: energy economics; environmental economics

Name: Prof. Kevin H. Zhang
Affiliation: Illinois State University, United States
Interests: multinational corporations and foreign direct investment (FDI); international tarde; international finance; Chinese economy; economic development; regional/urban economics

Name: Prof. Alexandre Morais Nunes
Affiliation: University of Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: health policies; health administration and management; innovation; sustainability; pharmaceutical sector

Name: Prof. Dibyajyoti Banerjee
Affiliation: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education, India
Interests: point of care testing tool development

Name: Prof. Emanuel Orozco Nuñez
Affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico
Interests: health systems; health policies; public health; nutrition

Context/Purpose: The urban ecosystem of Akanda behind the airport of the capital city of Libreville in Gabon, harbors diverse and dense mosquito larval habitats and hotspots for malaria and arboviruses transmission. To effectively conduct vector control, it is imperative to adopt an integrated approach by adding biolarvicides to the toolbox. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a biolarvicide under laboratory and field conditions. Methods: In Gabon, this current pilot and preliminary study sought to test the efficacy of the biolarvicide VectorBac® Water dispersable Granule (WG) (VBG) during the rainy season period (March to May 2024) under field and laboratory conditions following the 2005 World Health Organisation protocol. Results: For the bioassay of VBG, in the laboratory, the required dose to kill 88% and 100% of the larvae in rearing cups was 0.001 g/mL and 0.01 g/mL respectively. Under field conditions, the percentage larval density reduction irrespective of the microhabitat type ranged from 90 to 100% and the mosquito larval density reduction between test and control groups in the field differed statistically (X2=34; p = 0.026). Conclusion: The larvae from Akanda tested under field and laboratory conditions were very sensitive to the standard dose recommended by the manufacturer after 24 hrs post-treatment with VBG. This pilot study provides baseline information that is required to conduct a longitudinal study to evaluate the residual effect of VBG in different ecological settings in Gabon.