Agnes Le Port

Agnès Le Port

Researcher, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)

Agnès Le Port is a researcher working at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in the Montpellier Interdisciplinary Center on Sustainable Agri-food Systems Mixed Research Unit (UMR MoISA). Agnès’ research in Public Health and Nutrition focuses on the multiple forms of malnutrition, food environments and, more broadly, sustainable food systems, in South East Asia. Her past research focused on the prevention of malnutrition in women and children in West Africa, through rigorous mixed method impact evaluations. She previously worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Senegal, and at IRD in Benin, Bolivia and Senegal. Agnès holds a Ph.D. in Public Health (Epidemiology) and a master’s degree in public health from Paris-Sorbonne and a Doctorate in Pharmacy, from Paris-Saclay University.

Recent work by Agnès Le Port