Bush, Bench and Bedside: Nutrition Research in Rural Gambia (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

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• Professor Andrew Prentice: Head of the MRC International Nutrition Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MRC Keneba, MRC Unit, The Gambia
• Thursday 05 March 2015, 18:00-19:00
• Wine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Pauline Essah.

Wine will be served from 17:45

The Medical Research Council has funded an extraordinary research centre deep in the Gambian bush for almost 70 years (see www.ing.mrc.ac.uk). This is now a vibrant fieldstation that attempts to bring cutting edge science to some of the long-unanswered challenges in maternal and child health in low-income settings. To achieve this we need to collaborate with world leaders in Cambridge and beyond. My seminar will describe some of the outstanding diet-disease challenges in a global health context and use short vignettes on epigenetics and the iron-hepcidin-infection axis to show how we are trying to harness state-of-the-art methodologies to build a much stronger evidence base on which to design next-generation interventions.

This talk is part of the Cambridge-Africa Programme series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
• Cambridge Infectious Diseases
• Cambridge-Africa Programme
• Wine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST

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