1. Ranked 2nd in UK for research impact, 6th Globally for Public Health
Research income more than £124 million per year from UK research councils, the EU, the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation etc
1,300 staff working in over 100 countries

2. Nutrition-related research at LSHTM
Centre for - Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH)
Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Leverhulm Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health

3. Possible areas of collaboration
Policies to reduce obesity: Transport policies and the built environment - impacts on obesity
Sustainable and healthy diets: How to deliver sustainable, healthy acceptable and equitable diets – understanding effects of climate change, population growth, urbanization and agricultural policies.
Nutrition and infection –malnutrition & TB, infection and NCD interactions, e.g. long term risks of TB-diabetes co-morbidity.
Adolescent health:
Interventions in adolescence – long-term beneficial effects of catch-up growth? Combining interventional research with mechanistic work to investigate effects on cognition, body composition, markers of CVD risk, glucose & fat metabolism
Food environments; snack foods, animal source foods