222.647.01 NUTRITION EPIDEMIOLOGY

Reviews methodological issues related to nutritional assessment in the context of clinical, epidemiological, and programmatic research design. Discusses nutrition surveillance, cohort studies, field intervention trials, assessment techniques, and research design, including data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

By the end of the course students will be able to: 1) apply a conceptual framework for choosing appropriate indicators of nutritional status for different research and programmatic applications; 2) identify key methodological issues when assessing dietary intake, biochemical and anthropometric indicators, and the implications of those issues for assessing nutrition disease relationships; and 3) apply statistical methods for evaluating indicators of nutritional status, for choosing among candidate indicators and for assesing biases in nutrition-disease relationships.