Brent obtained a BSc in Biology in Alberta, Canada before moving to Liverpool to study for a MSc in Medical Entomology and Parasitology at LSTM in 2008/09.
He joined LSTM in 2010 as a consultant for CNTD before moving to the Vector Group working on insecticide resistance mechanisms and their impact on malaria control programmes in Sudan. In 2011 he returned to CNTD as the M&E research assistant where he worked on implementation and M&E activities for the DFID funded lymphatic filariasis elimination programme to strengthen regional programmes and ‘shrink’ the LF map. While at CNTD he also worked with the ICOSA control programme for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Zambia, Mozambique and Liberia to facilitate the starting/scale-up of activities.
As the programme progressed he took on the role of programme manager for the Liberian and Ghanaian NTD programmes as well as the laboratories support by CNTD. The management of the country programmes required the oversight of implementation, M&E and morbidity activities participated in key planning and document writing sessions with the Ministries and other partners. He has worked with the Ministries and partners in Liberia and Ghana to develop the countries Case Management Strategic Plan to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the programmes as well as the coordination and cooperation between groups and partners working with case management NTDs.
Brent joined the Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) at LSTM in 2019 as a programme manager for the National Institute for Health Research fund African Snakebite Research Group.
Brent has a vested interest in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the programmes through co-implementation and integrated (when possible) of programmes and activities for NTDs; both the traditionally preventive chemotherapy NTDs as well as the case management NTDs.
Brent has been involved with the parasitological and entomological practical demonstrations and examinations for both the DTMH and the MSc since 2011. He is involved in the teaching and evaluations conducted in the Biology and Control of Parasite and Disease Vectors MSc with a primary focus on the module Trop 719 ‘Parasite Epidemiology & Control’ through demonstrations, lectures and marking. Additionally, he has taught Trop 706 ‘Development of a Disease control programme’.
Brent joined the Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions (CSRI) at LSTM in 2019 as a programme manager for the National Institute for Health Research fund African Snakebite Research Group.
Brent has a vested interest in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the programmes through co-implementation and integrated (when possible) of programmes and activities for NTDs; both the traditionally preventive chemotherapy NTDs as well as the case management NTDs.
Brent has been involved with the parasitological and entomological practical demonstrations and examinations for both the DTMH and the MSc since 2011. He is involved in the teaching and evaluations conducted in the Biology and Control of Parasite and Disease Vectors MSc with a primary focus on the module Trop 719 ‘Parasite Epidemiology & Control’ through demonstrations, lectures and marking. Additionally, he has taught Trop 706 ‘Development of a Disease control programme’.