Perspectives of agriculture, nutrition and health researchers regarding research governance in Malawi. Using a leadership, ethics, governance and systems framework.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateCollege of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee (COMREC) reviewed and approved the study. Its ethics reference number is P.08/17/1233. Permission was sought from all participants and written individual informed consent was obtained from all participants a day before the interviews. Informed consent included permission to have the results of the study disseminated in research conferences and publications in peer-reviewed journals. All methods in the study were carried out following relevant guidelines and regulations. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding LM is a registered PhD student from the Department of Health Systems and Policy at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences formerly the University of Malawi, College of Medicine. This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the GeoNutrition project [INV-09129]. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission. The funders were not involved in any stages of the study design or implementation."