What is AGRICOH?
The AGRICOH consortium of agricultural cohorts(www.agricoh.iarc.fr) was formally created in 2010 on the initiative of the pilots of the large-scale American cohort, the Agricultural Health Study(https://aghealth.nih.gov/), which has been following almost 90,000 farmers and their spouses for nearly 30 years, and the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
One of the main reasons for its creation was the establishment of the French AGRIculture & CANcer cohort(www.agrican.fr), involving over 180,000 members of the Mutualité Sociale Agricole (MSA), spread over 11 départements. The AGRICAN cohort is coordinated by the Inserm Anticipe unit at the Centre François Baclesse in Caen, and the Inserm EPICENE team in Bordeaux.
This consortium now includes 29 cohorts from 15 countries on 5 continents (Europe with Denmark, France, Norway, the UK and Switzerland; America with Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and the USA; Asia with South Korea and Japan; Africa with South Africa and Uganda; and Oceania with Australia and New Zealand). It enables international collaborations that have produced results on glyphosate and other pesticides. It also meets regularly to facilitate collaboration.
Two conferences for the general public on cancer and pesticides
The next AGRICOH meeting will take place at the Centre François Baclesse from July 6 to 8, 2022. In addition to the scientific work to be carried out by the consortium members, two webinars are planned, featuring contributions from two eminent epidemiological researchers. The lectures will be in English, but simultaneously translated into French on a different audio channel.
- Wednesday, July 6 at 5pm
Dr Kurt Straif, Professor of Public Health Boston College USA & Research Associate, IS Global Barcelona, Spain, former Director of Monographs at the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), will give a talk on :
How the IARC Monographs Program evaluates the carcinogenicity of chemical, biological and physical exposures: general principles of scientific evaluation and illustrations using recent examples (night work, cell phones, consumption of red or processed meat).
- Thursday, July 7 at 5pm
Dr Laura Beane-Freeman, Researcher at the National Cancer Institute, Washington USA, and lead coordinator of the US Agricultural Health Study cohort, will give a talk on :
The US Agricultural Health Cohort Study: key findings after 30 years of research? Key challenges and prospects ?
