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PFRH 664* CURRENT AND EMERGING ISSUES IN NUTRITION

Credits: 
2

This course will cover the following issues: chronic under nutrition, obesity and nutrition transition, fetal origins of disease hypothesis, food environment, food system vulnerabilities, nutritional genomics, Bioactive Foods, Food Ethics, Food Politics and Security, genetically modified organisms, public-Private partnerships in Nutrition, Nutrition-sensitive and Nutrition-specific interventions, nutrition policy and governance, Nutritional surveillance. At the end of the course, students should be able to: Link concepts in health, nutrition and development; develop a mental map of existing and emerging determinants of population nutritional status; review key evidence of determinants of Nutrition towards policy development in Nutrition and health.