Ms. Mercy Opiyo is currently working as a Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) in Tanzania. Prior to joining IHI, she worked as an Entomologist with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) between 2011-2014 in a Tsetse Control Programme in collaboration with the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya, and the Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Programme, Uganda.