Essentials of Public Health Nutrition

Catalog description

This graduate-level course is designed to provide an overview of the foundational elements of public health nutrition. This will include a focus on three essential components: (1) principles of human nutrition, (2) biological mechanisms influencing nutrition in health and disease, and (3) major public health nutrition programs and emerging issues. Specific topics will include essential nutrients with emphasis on their sources, function, and metabolism in the human body; nutrition needs throughout the life course; nutrition in chronic disease; national and global public health nutrition initiatives; current challenges and innovations. An emphasis will be placed on the major nutrition‐related problems in the world today and evidence-based strategies to address them.