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AGRICOH is an international consortium of agricultural cohort studies formed in October of 2010 to encourage and support data pooling to study disease-exposure associations that individual cohorts do not have sufficient statistical power to study. The consortium includes three general population cohorts with a significant proportion of farmers.
AGRICOH represents a formidable vehicle for studying cancer, respiratory, neurologic, and auto-immune diseases, reproductive and allergic disorders, injuries and mortality in association with a wide array of exposures in participating cohort studies and also in under-studied settings. To this end the consortium will strive to identify new participating agricultural cohorts in medium- and low-income countries.
AGRICOH is open to researchers interested in investigating health outcomes (e.g. cancer, respiratory illnesses, many others) in association with exposures present during farming and in the agricultural environment. Complete procedures describing decision-making on the pooling of data in support of proposed projects are being developed and will be posted on this website in the near future.
AGRICOH News
French Agency ONEMA to fund first AGRICOH pooling project on exposure to pesticides and risk of lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma - submitted to a competitive grant call in 2011(ANSES).
Two cohorts from Australia led by Dr. Ewan MacFarlane at Monash University, Melbourne, have joined
AGRICOH: the Victorian Grain Farmers Cohort and the Pesticide Exposed Workers Cohort
(Cholinesterase Surveillance Program Cohort)