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Lars Åke Persson is a paediatrician and epidemiologist focusing on global health. He was the Director of the Public Health Sciences Division at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) from 1999 to 2003. Subsequently, he served as a Professor of International Child Health at Uppsala University from 2003 to 2014 and is currently a professor in Public Health Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His research interests include improved prenatal and early life nutrition and its short- and long-term effects on child health, as evidenced by his work on the MINIMat trial in Bangladesh. Moreover, he studies community-based interventions, as demonstrated by the NeoKIP trial in Vietnam, aimed at reducing neonatal mortality. He has published extensively, with a significant body of work on the social conditions impacting family and child health, including issues like gender-based violence. His ambition is to enhance global child health through community-based nutrition trials and strengthening research capabilities in health contexts, exemplified by his ongoing project in Ethiopia.
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