Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture
- Type
- Research Institute or Center
Overview
The Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, is bringing together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral research to improve health and wellness.
Contact
Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D.
Director
1500 Research Parkway
Centeq Building B, Suite 270
College Station, TX 77845
The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture is the world’s first academic institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease and lower health care costs, in a way that is environmentally and economically sustainable.
Solving the challenges facing our food systems with this promise of health through agriculture-based solutions is no small endeavor and requires extraordinary support. As such, the IHA brings together experts across many disciplines, including agriculture, nutrition, behavioral, social and life sciences, engineering, data and computation science, and economics. IHA researchers work collaboratively to develop solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the food and agriculture systems today in a manner that can support human, environmental and economic health.
The IHA will provide research, training, extension and development of state-of-the-art technologies.
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