When: Friday, March 24, 2023, 3:00 PM - 5:30 PMWhere: Garrod Building, Whitechapel Campus
In the last two decades Peru has experienced continuous economic growth, but a large number of children are still suffering from anaemia due to insufficient iron levels in their blood. The roots of this problem are likely to be a complex relationship of ecological, biological, social and political factors which most heavily impact the marginalised.
This roundtable will bring together researchers from Peru and Queen Mary University of London to debate and present their initial results from a multicentre prospective cohort study with an eco-bio-social-political approach in three Peruvian cities located in the Coast, the Andes and the Amazon.
This bilateral study has been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and Fondecyt/Concytec in Peru through the Newton Fund and support by the British Embassy in Peru, led by Dr Doreen Montag of the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and Dr Carlos Delgado (Director of the Research Circle) at the National Institute of Child Health in Lima, Peru, to understand the complexity of environmental, social, and nutritional factors altering mechanisms of adaptive iron homeostasis in infants during the Anthropocene.
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