Will Eaton, MPH

Will Eaton is a PhD student in the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He earned an MPH in global epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH).

At CSPH, Will studied environmental risk factors for peripheral malaria among pregnant women in western Kenya and examined schistosomiasis parasite reservoirs in areas approaching elimination in Sichuan, China. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he developed and co-authored practical approaches for targeting bed net distribution campaigns to combat malaria in Uganda, Nigeria, and Malawi. 

At Tulane, Will worked with the Center for Applied Malaria Research & Evaluation (CAMRE) on developing an attractive targeted sugar bait cluster randomized controlled trial and has assembled evaluation strategies for a larval source management pilot in Grand’Anse, Haiti.

His dissertation focuses on elimination in the last remaining malaria-endemic region of the Caribbean, the island of Hispaniola. His studies consist of the estimation of the impact and cost-effectiveness of a package of interventions (long-lasting insecticide treated nets, indoor residual spraying, and targeted mass drug administration) in the highest malaria incidence region of Haiti. He is also exploring the contribution of secondary vectors to malaria transmission in Haiti by examining factors associated with antibodies against various Anopheles mosquito salivary peptides as well as associations between these antibodies and malaria status using rapid diagnostic tests.