Lina Finda is a research scientist at Ifakara Health Institute. She received her BSc in Biochemistry and Biology/Anthropology from Western Washington University (USA) in 2010, and in 2014 received a Masters of Public Health with dual concentrations in Maternal and Child Health and Health Education and Promotion, from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (USA). Ms. Finda is currently overseeing two projects; one is to reassess the intensity of malaria transmission in Ifakara area, and another on monitoring the magnitude and drivers of the residual malaria transmission in Tanzania and Burkina Faso.