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Dr Luigi Sedda, Lecturer in Spatial Epidemiology Bio I am a Lecturer in Spatial Epidemiology at CHICAS – University of Lancaster. My main interest is in modelling biological processes and I am specialised in analysing the geographic patterns of vector-borne diseases and developing statistical tools for vector control (e.g. tsetse flies). I work on both human and animal diseases, for the latter I have concentrated my work on Bluetongue and nagana, two livestock diseases causing huge economic losses for farmers. Abstract Biological and statistical models are used for mapping and modelling vector-borne diseases, however, rarely they are combined to produce maps and tools for vector control. In addition, geostatistics offers the tools to explicitly include the spatial and temporal dimensions in modelling vector-borne diseases. In this talk the advantages in using a geo-bio-statistical model are shown through an example of tsetse flies surveillance and control (the vector for nagana in livestock and sleeping sickness in humans) in Zambia. We show how mapping immigration, emigration, seasonality in mortality and fertility of vector populations can be the key elements for successful disease eradication.