Public Health Nutrition

Catalog description

Public Health Nutrition involves the application of food and nutrition knowledge, policy, and research to improve the nutritional status and health of populations. This course emphasizes the distinction between population-based and individual-based approaches to prevention and alleviation of diet-related conditions, and the barriers to improving the nutritional status and health of diverse population groups. The course will discuss the social, behavioral, and food- and nutrition-related factors that affect health both nationally and globally. Lectures will integrate nutritional science, applied practice and nutrition research, and their application to initiatives and programs designed to improve the nutritional status of populations.