Annual Review 2011: Research challenge 5 - Connecting environment, nutrition and health

Global health is under serious threat from the interlinked issues of access to nutrition, food security and climate change. We foster a multidisciplinary approach to address these problems.

In this year's ‘Annual Review’, you can read about a project building research capacity in Fiji and Tonga while undertaking ambitious research into ways to prevent obesity in the Pacific region. In addition, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection explored our relationship with dirt and hygiene, the summer 2011 issue of 'Big Picture' - our free education resource - focused on food and diet, findings from a project looking at health dynamics in Kenya have informed policies and further studies, and researchers showed a direct link between the FTO gene and obesity.

Further resources

Here are links to information relating to each of this year's 'Annual Review' stories in research challenge 5:

Obesity Prevention in Communities (page 37)

Dirt season (page 38)

Big Picture: Food and Diet (page 39)

Health dynamics in Africa (page 39)

FTO gene linked to obesity (page 39)

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