Engagement
What he does beyond his articles. Expertise for the World Health Organization, public voice on resistance, and the teams he trains.
International expertise
Three decades of evaluating vector control tools, for and alongside the World Health Organization.
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WHOPES expert
From 2012 to 2018, member of the working group of the WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme in Geneva, which evaluated and recommended insecticides for indoor residual spraying and long-lasting insecticidal nets.
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Vector Control Working Group
Since 2014, member of the Vector Control Working Group, which meets every year in Geneva on the progress and challenges of malaria vector control.
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WHO Evidence Review Group
Member of the World Health Organization Evidence Review Group on long-lasting nets treated with piperonyl butoxide (PBO).
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Adviser to national programmes
The national malaria control programmes of Côte d'Ivoire and Benin regularly consult him on the choice of vector control tools where pyrethroid resistance is high.
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Evaluations to WHO standards
The VCPEC-IPR he created in Bouaké, inaugurated in 2019, runs evaluations commissioned under WHO guidelines, with a GLP certification obtained in 2023.
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Peer reviewer
He reviews manuscripts for The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Acta Tropica, Parasites & Vectors, Malaria Journal, Scientific Reports, Pest Management Science and PLOS ONE.
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Editorial board
Member of the editorial board of Parasites & Vectors.
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National Research Foundation of South Africa
He assesses and rates research proposals, and the career advancement of fellow scientists, for South Africa's National Research Foundation.
In the media
He speaks publicly about insecticide resistance and what it means for malaria control in Côte d'Ivoire.
Pr Raphaël N'Guessan warns about insecticide resistance
Canal Ivoire · March 2026 · 7:50
Passing it on
Building teams and training those who will evaluate the tools of tomorrow.
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Teaching
Since 2012 he teaches the Malaria module of the master's programmes of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and since 2013 he tutors the students of its distance learning master's on vector control, within the Infectious Disease Control course.
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Courses in West Africa
Since 2007 he gives lectures and seminars on malaria transmission and the relative weight of vector control tools, for master's students of the universities of Cotonou and Montpellier, and on insectary practice and insecticide bioassays, for West African students of medical entomology in Cotonou. Since 2009 he also teaches insecticide resistance in malaria vectors, in Cotonou and in Côte d'Ivoire. He taught in the master's in medical entomology of the University of Abomey-Calavi from 2005 to 2015, and in the International Master in Entomology in Bouaké from 2014 to 2018.
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Supervision
Main supervisor of a doctoral thesis at the LSHTM, defended in November 2020, he currently supervises at the Institut Pierre Richet a doctoral student of Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and has supervised twelve master's students from Ghana, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Europe and Asia. Every year since 2006 he has hosted in Benin master's students of the LSHTM for their research project, which he supervises and marks.
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Mentoring researchers
Since 2010 he mentors junior and senior project leaders at the CREC in Benin and at the Institut Pierre Richet. He reviews their draft papers, advises them on methods and statistical analysis, and helps shape their scientific vision and careers.
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Training teams in West Africa
At the CREC in Cotonou from 2003 to 2015, then at the VCPEC-IPR in Bouaké, he has trained technicians and junior researchers from Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Europe in experimental hut trials and insecticide testing.
Invitations and expert opinions
An expert opinion, a talk, a review of a trial protocol. Your message goes directly to Dr N'Guessan.