NUTRITION RESEARCH AND ITS RELATION TO PUBLIC HEALTH

1949 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutrition Research

Strengthening public health nutrition research and training capacities in West Africa: Report of a planning workshop convened in Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 March 2009

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (sup1) ◽  
pp. S1-S19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth H. Brown ◽  
Milla McLachlan ◽  
Placido Cardosa ◽  
Félicité Tchibindat ◽  
Shawn K. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
And Training

scholarly journals Connecting nutrition as a hard science and international knowledge networks: Proceedings of the Fourth International Summit on Medical and Public Health Nutrition Education and Research

2020 ◽  
pp. bmjnph-2020-000090
Author(s):  
Eden M Barrett ◽  
Mhairi Brown ◽  
Luke Buckner ◽  
James Bradfield ◽  
Ali A Khalid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Hard Science ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
International Knowledge ◽  
International Summit

IntroductionNutrition is a ‘hard’ science in two ways; the scientific rigour required for quality nutrition research, and equally, the challenges faced in evidence translation. Ways in which quality nutrition research can be synthesised and evidence effectively translated into practice were the focus of the Fourth Annual International Summit on Medical and Public Health Nutrition Education and Research.SettingWolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Addenbrookes Hospital at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, in July 2018.Key findingsOpen communication and collaboration across disciplines and systems, including transfer of knowledge, ideas and data through international knowledge application networks, was presented as a key tool in enhancing nutrition research and translation of evidence. Increasing basic nutrition competence and confidence in medical professionals is needed to encourage the implementation of nutrition therapy in prevention and treatment of health outcomes.ConclusionsA sustained focus on producing quality nutrition research must be coupled with increased efforts in collaboration and building of knowledge networks, including educating and training multidisciplinary health and medical professionals in nutrition. Such efforts are needed to ensure nutrition is both reliable in its messaging and effective in translation into healthcare.

scholarly journals Back to the future: the changing frontiers of nutrition research and its relationship to policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Nutritional Transition ◽  
The Relationship

Seventy years have elapsed since the Nutrition Society was founded and John Boyd Orr became its first Chairman. Over the intervening period, nutrition research has embraced and responded to a wide variety of challenges as the requirements of research have evolved and changed. This paper reflects on some of the major challenges that have influenced nutrition research over the past 70 years and considers where nutrition stands today along with the challenges for the future. In the past, these challenges have included food security and improvements in animal nutrition to enhance production through problems of overnutrition, such as CVD and obesity, as well as the recognition of the importance of early-life nutrition. The challenges for the future include how to translate the increasingly comprehensive and complex understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health, being gained as a result of the genomic revolution, into simple and accessible policy advice. It also includes how we learn more about the ways in which diet can help in the prevention of obesity as well as the ways in which we prevent the rise in complex diseases in emerging nations as they undergo nutritional transition. From this, it is clear that nutrition research has moved a long way from its initial focus on nutritional deficiencies to a subject, which is at the heart of public health consideration. This evolution of nutrition research means that today diet and health are high on the political agenda and that nutrition remains a priority area for research. It has been 70 years since 1941 when the Nutrition Society was established, under its first Chairman, John Boyd Orr. At that time there were many who believed that nutrition research had reached its peak and there was little left to discover. This view stemmed from the fact that most vitamins and minerals had been discovered and that the syndromes associated with nutritional deficiencies in these were largely known. Despite this gloomy prognosis, the intervening 70 years have witnessed a remarkable evolution in nutrition research, which has underpinned key Government policies, ranging from food security right through to public health. This review considers some major developments that have helped to shape nutrition research over the past 70 years and in so doing have changed its frontiers.

scholarly journals WHO Hemoglobin Thresholds to Define Anemia in Clinical Medicine and Public Health: A Scoping Exercise

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 189-189
Author(s):  
Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal ◽  
Sant-Rayn Pasricha ◽  
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas ◽  
Katherine Colman ◽  
Elizabeth Centeno-Tablante
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Iron Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
International Consultation ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
Key Questions

Abstract Objectives WHO is reviewing the use and interpretation of hemoglobin thresholds for assessing iron status in individuals and populations following established evidence-informed guideline development procedures to culminate in updated guidelines for clinical and public health use. Methods To define priorities and identify key questions a scoping exercise was developed via a two-stage international consultation based on the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative method. The first survey allowed respondents to suggest priorities, and the second asked respondents to rank the key questions with established criteria. A transparent approach was used to identify more than 4000 international experts in anemia research based on publication records and ensuring representatives from all WHO regions and low income and middle-income countries. Results The first survey received 123 respondents from 48 countries across all six WHO regions. The 553 proposed questions spanned many themes and were consolidated to a shortlist of 48 questions spanning six subtopics, including physiology of anemia, hemoglobin thresholds for different population groups, definition of anemia across clinical and environmental contexts, approach to development of anemia thresholds, laboratory and diagnostic considerations, and implementation of WHO's hemoglobin threshold guidelines. The second survey received 195 respondents from 64 countries across all six WHO regions. Questions covered diverse themes, including variation in thresholds between individuals of different sex and age, categorisation of anaemia severity and the burden of anaemia, optimal clinical and field laboratory measurements of haemoglobin, and antenatal and infant haemoglobin concentrations associated with adverse developmental outcomes. Conclusions Based on the normative needs identified in this scoping exercise the available evidence will be summarized and presented to a WHO guideline development group after input from an expert panel. This rigorous, inclusive, and transparent approach should enable international harmonization of hemoglobin thresholds used to define anemia in both clinical and public health practice. Funding Sources The World Health Organization The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA.

scholarly journals The use of commercial food purchase data for public health nutrition research: A systematic review

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e0210192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Bandy ◽  
Vyas Adhikari ◽  
Susan Jebb ◽  
Mike Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Food Purchase ◽  
Nutrition Research

The evolution of nutrition research

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara K. Isaak ◽  
Yaw L. Siow
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
New Age ◽  
Gene Interactions ◽  
Personalized Nutrition ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but will rather cure and prevent disease with nutrition”. Thomas Edison's contemplation may come to fruition if the nutritional revolution continues in its current course. Two realizations have propelled the world into a new age of personalized nutrition: (i) food can provide benefits beyond its intrinsic nutrient content, and (ii) we are not all created equal in our ability to realize to these benefits. Nutrigenomics is concerned with delineating genomic propensities to respond to various nutritional stimuli and the resulting impact on individual health. This review will examine the current technologies utilized by nutrigeneticists, the available literature regarding nutrient-gene interactions, and the translation of this new awareness into public health.

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