Nutrition for Global Health

This unit investigates the epidemiology of current and emerging global nutrition challenges from a biological, social, economic and policy perspective. The unit explores issues of maternal and child under-nutrition in low and middle income countries and the growing global momentum to address these with evidence-based interventions delivered to scale. The double-burden of nutrition related diseases as a result of changing food consumption and physical activity levels is increasingly becoming a major public health concern globally with an increase in obesity and non-communicable diseases. This unit explores specific issues around the double burden of nutrition-related communicable and non-communicable disease and recent advances in efforts to tackle this both globally and locally to meet the World Health Assembly Nutrition Targets by 2030.