Contact : vena.joseph@umontreal.ca

Presentation 

Vena Joseph a doctoral student in public health. Originally from Port-au-Prince, she is currently based in Canada, where she is completing a PhD in global health at the University of Montreal. She has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and a master’s degree in Tropical Medicine/Parasitology from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA). She has worked in global health research since 2015, collaborating with several international organizations, non-governmental organizations and universities supporting the ministry of health in Haiti. Her past work revolved around malaria prevention and control, medical entomology, and epidemiology. Her PhD research focuses on the coordination of transnational health efforts in rural areas of low-income countries. More specifically, she is interested in the complexity inherent to the fragmented and pluralistic health sector in rural Haiti, through the lens of complex adaptive systems. Her research has been funded by the Queen Elizabeth II scholarship program and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Vena divides her time between scientific research and visual arts. Her artistic approach combines traditional and digital practices to create figurative and semi-abstract works.

Areas of expertise

• Public health
• Medical entomology
• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Malaria
• Global health
• Complex systems

Publications 

Joseph, V. (2023). The case for socio-ecological approaches in the evaluation of mosquito larval source management for malaria control in Haiti. Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A1878. EU European Publishing. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/164513

Batal M, Moubarac JC, Druetz T, Joseph V. (2022). Nutrient Profile Model Study Based on Canadian Community Health Survey 2015 Nutrition Data. Report to the Pan American Health Organization (Washington), 11 pages.

Tiendrebeogo C*, Joseph V*, Bicaba F, Bila A, Bicaba A, Druetz T. (2022). Does abolishing user fees for family planning increase contraception use? An impact evaluation of the national policy in Burkina Faso. J Glob Health, 12:04086. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.12.04086

Isoe, J., Petchampai, N., Joseph, V., & Scaraffia, P. Y. (2022). Ornithine decarboxylase deficiency critically impairs nitrogen metabolism and survival in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 36(5), e22279. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202200008R 

Cediel G.C., Gomez, F., Martinez R., Laspiur S., Rose, A.M., Carriquiry, A., Toledo, C., Berón, C., Köncke, F. Klaczko, I., Corvalán, C., Reyes, M., Batis, C., Marrón-Ponce, J.A., Martinez E., Rauber F., Louzada M.L., Moubarac. J-C., Batal, M., Nardocci, M., Druetz, T., Joseph, V., Zapata, M.E., Unwin, N., Machado P.., Harris, R.M., Anderson, S. (2022). Consumo de productos ultraprocesados y procesados con exceso de nutrientes asociados con enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y la alimentación insalubre en las Américas. (Numéro de rapport: OPS/NMH/RF/21-0036). Organisation Panaméricaine de la Santé https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34710.22089

Jaramillo-Underwood, A., Impoinvil, D., Sutcliff, A., Hamre, K.S., Joseph, V., van den Hoogen, L., et al (2022) Factors Associated With Human IgG Antibody Response to Anopheles albimanus Salivary Gland Extract, Artibonite Department, Haiti, 2017, The Journal of Infectious Diseases;, jiac245, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac245

Druetz, T., van den Hoogen, L., Stresman, G., Joseph, V., et al. Etramp5 as a useful serological marker in children to assess the immediate effects of mass drug campaigns for malaria. BMC Infect Dis 22, 643 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07616-8

Druetz, T., Stresman, G., Ashton, R. A., Joseph, V., et al. (2021). The Immediate Effects of a Combined Mass Drug Administration and Indoor Residual Spraying Campaign to Accelerate Progress towards Malaria Elimination in Grande-Anse, Haiti. The Journal of infectious diseases, jiab259. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab259

van den Hoogen, L. L., Herman, C., Présumé, J., Romilus, I., Mondélus, G., Elismé, T., Existe, A., Boncy, J., Joseph, V., Stresman, G., et al. (2021). Rapid Screening for Non-falciparum Malaria in Elimination Settings Using Multiplex Antigen and Antibody Detection: Post Hoc Identification of Plasmodium malariae in an Infant in Haiti. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 104(6), 2139–2145. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1450

Ashton, R.A., Joseph, V., van den Hoogen, L.L., Tetteh, K.K., Stresman, G., Worges, M., Druetz, T., Chang, M.A., Rogier, E., Lemoine, J.F., Drakeley, C., Eisele, T.P. (2020) Risk Factors for Malaria Infection and Seropositivity in the Elimination Area of Grand'Anse, Haiti: A Case-Control Study among Febrile Individuals Seeking Treatment at Public Health Facilities. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 103(2):767-777. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0097

Rogier, E., Hamre, K., Joseph, V., Plucinski, M., Presume, J., et al. (2020). Conventional and High-Sensitivity Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Performance in 2 Transmission Settings: Haiti 2017. J Infect Dis. 221(5):786-795. doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz525.

Druetz, T., Stresman, G., Ashton, R.A., van den Hoogen, L.L., Joseph, V., Fayette, C., Monestime, F., Hamre, K.E., Chang, M.A., Lemoine, J.F., Drakeley, C., Eisele, T.P. (2020). Programmatic options for monitoring malaria in elimination settings: Easy access group surveys to investigate Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology in two regions with differing endemicity in Haiti. BMC Med.18(1):141. doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01611-z.

van den Hoogen, L.L., Stresman, G., Existe, A., Presume, J., Romilus, I., Mondelus, G., Elisme, T., Hamre, K.E.S., Ashton, R.A., Druetz, T., Joseph, V., Beeson, J.G., Draper, S.J., Boncy, J., Eisele, T.P., Chang, M.A., Udhayakumar, V., Lemoine, J.F., Tetteh, K.K.A., Rogier, E., Drakeley, C. (2020). Selection of antibody responses associated with Plasmodium falciparum infections in the context of malaria elimination. Frontiers in Immunology. 11:928. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00928.

van den Hoogen, L.L., Présumé, J., Romilus, I., Mondélus, G., Elismé T., Sepúlveda, N., Stresman, G., Druetz, T., Ashton, R.A., Joseph, V., et al. Quality control of multiplex antibody detection in samples from large-scale surveys: the example of malaria in Haiti. Sci Rep 10, 1135 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57876-0

Rogier, E., van den Hoogen, L.L., Herman, C., Gurrala, K., Joseph, V., et al. (2019). High-throughput malaria serosurveillance using a one-step multiplex bead assay. Malar J. 18(1):402. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-3027-0