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Global Health Activities in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences related to global health

Offerings on Cornell NutritionWorks

For a listing of offerings on Cornell NutritionWorks related to global food, nutrition and health issues, click here.

Programming for Infant and Young Child Feeding - Free Training Course

UNICEF and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell have jointly developed an online training course, Programming for Infant and Young Child Feeding. This course aims to enhance the competencies and build capacity of UNICEF staff and counterparts who are involved in IYCF program development, program implementation, and program evaluation.

If you have already registered for the UNICEF course, click here.

New Directions in the Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition - Free Presentations

A Festschrift in honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen, sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences, was held at Cornell University on December 13 and 14, 2013.

Per’s colleagues, collaborators, and students paid tribute and presented papers in the areas of Food Systems, Health, and Nutrition; Agricultural Development and Research and Technology Policy; Globalization, Trade, and Poverty; and Political Economy of Food and Agricultural Policy — the substantive themes that represent the breadth of Per’s work.

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Food Policy for Developing Countries – Free Program

This online program aims to strengthen university training in policy analysis for the food systems, with emphasis on developing countries, using a social entrepreneurship approach. The approach attempts to simulate real policy-making situations within an analytical and conceptual learning environment, employing a hands-on, participatory environment in which the students are taught to be social entrepreneurs.

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DNS Global Health Program

The Division of Nutritional Sciences Global Health Program offers students from any field of study the opportunity to explore and apply global health knowledge through experiential learning. We define global health as research, service, and training that address health problems that transcend national boundaries and disproportionately affect the resource-poor. Our mission is to engage new researchers and practitioners in the field of global health and to establish new and unique relationships that foster a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and solving global health problems.