This course introduces the current issues related to global nutrition. It integrates basic information about food intake and nutrition into discussions of major nutrition-related problems around the world. The course will present and discuss international, national and community-level policies and programs designed to improve the nutritional status of populations and to overcome barriers to their implementation. This course will also discuss nutritional status as a "continuum" whereby populations can simultaneously have members with severe under-nutrition, good nutritional status, and over-nutrition. The course will focus on the burden of under-nutrition but will also discuss several "emerging" or special topics including the nutrition transition, weaning and complementary feeding, and women and health.
Location:
Spring seminar: NYU Washington Square
Spring break travel: NYU Buenos Aires
Travel Dates
March 15-20, 2027 (Students to fly overnight on March 14)
(Tentative; subject to change)
Faculty
Kathleen Woolf, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies
Academics
Accepted students will be sent a permission code to register for the following course in Albert:
- Course Number TBA (4 credits)
- Meets the Societies & Social Sciences core requirement.
This course is offered through the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies