Dr. Lea Pare Toe obtained her PhD in Anthropology & Sociology at the University of Aix Marseille in France. She is Target Malaria’s Stakeholder Engagement Lead in Burkina Faso. Throughout her training and career, Dr. Pare Toe has developed a great interest in the field of research on malaria from an anthropological point of view. Dr. Pare Toe’s doctoral research enabled her to specialize in the socio-anthropological analysis of health problems in Africa, specifically in vector-borne diseases. Author of several publications since 2000, she is interested in questions of social representations of malaria in connection with the acceptance of the means of control developed by science and technology. Her various works have underlined the need to think ahead for fundamental research in malaria control and to look at the perceptions, expectations and constraints of populations in relation to the use and allocation of research results by the beneficiary populations. Dr. Pare Toe is one of the forerunners of social sciences interested in genetic technologies from the point of view of local communities and stakeholders