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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.

Cornell’s Global Health Program

The Global Health Program is a new and innovative university-wide training program at Cornell University that aims to engage undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and faculty from multiple disciplines to solve problems of global health. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and Cornell, the program supports academic, research, internship and outreach collaborations related to global health issues across Cornell’s Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. For more details, see http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb07/global_health.sl.html.

United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme

The United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social Development (UNU-FNP) was originated as a response to the increasing issues surrounding world hunger. UNU-FNP, coordinated within Cornell University's Division of Nutritional Sciences, has developed networks of scholars and universities and has made major contributions to training, research, institution building, and policy formation particularly in developing countries. The Programme is dedicated to improving lives through the generation of new knowledge and by providing access to current food and nutrition information within institutions. This knowledge is then applied at a grassroots level by in-country individual nutrition professionals and practitioners.

In 2007, UNU-FNP co-sponsored a symposium on The African Food System and its Interactions with Health and Nutrition. Highlights from the symposium related to 1) nutrition, disease burdens and the role of women in sub-Saharan Africa, and 2) the impact of poor health and nutrition on economic growth are available online.

Food Policy for Developing Countries – Free Online 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. For more details, see http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb08/worldfood.course.sl.html.