604.721.81
Securing Food Assistance and Nutrition in Humanitarian Emergencies

Location
Internet
Term
2nd Term
Department
MAS Office
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2022 - 2023
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Shannon Doocy
Shelley Walton
Contact Name
Shannon Doocy
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Nutrition and food security are fundamental elements of all humanitarian responses and critical to ensuring population well-being.
Introduces food security, including the components of food security, causes for the deterioration of food security in humanitarian emergencies and nutritional deficiencies in humanitarian settings. Provides an overview of food and nutrition standards, nutrition surveys and response programming, including organizations involved in nutrition and food assistance and common programmatic interventions and policies used in response to food crises. Topics covered include food assistance strategies, including in-kind assistance, cash transfers and livelihoods programming, as well as preventative and curative nutrition programs. Focuses on recent and past food and nutrition crises to illustrate important concepts and utilizes a field-based approach to guide discussions and consider applications of concepts to real life humanitarian crises.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Define common nutritional deficiencies in emergencies and specify how these should be corrected
  2. Assess population nutrition status and household food security
  3. Select strategies for targeting, providing and monitoring food assistance
  4. Recommend strategies for food assistance in the emergency context, including policy factors, key organizations involved in provision of food assistance, and current food crises
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 50% Assignments
  • 30% Problem sets
  • 20% Participation
Enrollment Restriction
Only non-OPAL students. OPAL MAS students should enroll in 604.721.86
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Students in MPH, MSPH, DrPH, PhD and other non-OPAL programs. OPAL students should enroll in 604.721.86 instead.