Public Health Nutrition

Catalog description

Graduate Students Only This course will examine current and emerging issues in global and public health nutrition. Students will engage in discussions to address populations of diverse cultures and global nutrition health and nutrition policy. Students learn to recognize how determinants of health, health disparities and availability and accessibility of resources, influence the nutrition status of communities and state, country, and regional programs. Program planning and population needs assessments are addressed. Course topics include an overview of global and US public health nutrition goals, malnutrition around the globe, nutrition surveillance systems and interventions, practices and processes of local and global food markets, global food systems and legislative and regulatory policies.