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Agri-health research: what have we learned and where do we go next?

5th annual conference of the leverhulme centre for integrative research on agriculture and health (LCIRAH), 2015

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partly supported by the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). All authors declare no conflicts of interest. FP, LA, MB, SC, PD-S, LJ, MT contributed to writing sections of the manuscript. FP gave cohesion to the final manuscript and LA, MB, SC, PD-S, LJ, MT reviewed the manuscript and provided critical edits. FP incorporated all revisions. All authors approved the final manuscript. The authors thank Elizabeth Hull and Laura Cornelsen who reviewed the manuscript draft and provided critical edits. The authors also thank all conference speakers and participants.

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  1. Leverhulme Centre for Integrated Research on Agriculture and Health – LCIRAH, LIDC, 36 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD, UK

    Fiorella Picchioni, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Mieghan M. Bruce, Soledad Cuevas, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Lili Jia & Mehroosh Tak

  2. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK

    Fiorella Picchioni, Soledad Cuevas, Lili Jia & Mehroosh Tak

  3. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK

    Lukasz Aleksandrowicz

  4. Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London, UK

    Mieghan M. Bruce & Paula Dominguez-Salas

  5. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

    Paula Dominguez-Salas

  6. Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (Immana), London, UK

    Mieghan M. Bruce

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Picchioni, F., Aleksandrowicz, L., Bruce, M.M. et al. Agri-health research: what have we learned and where do we go next?. Food Sec. 8, 291–298 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-015-0540-z

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