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DHS 785

Food Insecurity and Global Nutrition
Name: Food Insecurity and Global Nutrition
Course Number: DHS 785
Credit(s): 3

Course Description

DHS 785 Food Insecurity and Global Nutrition examines global food and nutritional security, emphasizing the challenges of providing sustainable, healthy, and accessible food to all human beings. In this course, students critically analyze four overarching and overlapping issues related to food insecurity and global nutrition: food availability, utilization, accessibility, and stability. This course adopts the view that these tremendous challenges require transforming the world’s food systems, mobilizing all stakeholders and policymakers based on knowledge and scientific evidence, and interdisciplinary collaboration involving public health practitioners and researchers. 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the current state of food insecurity and global nutrition.
  • Critically analyze the four primary challenges in food security and global nutrition.
  • Learn the interdisciplinary approach and effective governance to address tremendous challenges in global food insecurity.
  • Understand how the world’s food systems and global nutrition can be transformed based on scientific evidence, the combination of local and global approaches to sustainability, and policymakers’ efforts.

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