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Linking agriculture to global health

by Elizabeth Wilson

Agriculture for Impact contributes to a new Commission in The Lancet exploring how development technologies contribute to global health.

Liz Wilson, Agriculture for Impact has contributed to a collaboration between The Lancet and Imperial College London: a Commission examining how medical technology should best be used to improve health in low- and middle-income countries. The report concludes that in many cases, medical technology—almost exclusively developed in rich countries—is simply inappropriate for use in poorer nations.

The Commission was published online on the 1st August, in time for the opening of Imperial's Global Health Policy Summit in London.

For more information please contact Liz Wilson at e.wilson@imperial.ac.uk