NS 6200

Translational Research and Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Nutrition

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This team taught graduate nutrition course addresses the frameworks used in evidenced-based approaches and decision making to set nutrition policy and practice guidelines where emerging and conflicting scientific data are commonplace. The course format is 50% lecture-based with content lectures given by experts in the subject area, and 50% discussion based, with interactive discussions and case-study discussions facilitated by practice and policy guest experts using videoconferencing.

When Offered Spring (offered in odd-numbered years only).

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

• Relate and explain how available scientific information is used to develop research that translates basic to applied science, applied science to mechanistic inquiry, evidence-based clinical care, expert committee guidance, and public health policies.
• Evaluate, as a result of this course, translational research approaches and the use of scientific evidence to inform policy making at the national and international levels.

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