Epidemiology & Public Health

Track 9: Public Health Nutrition

Public Health Nutrition (PHN) focuses on improving people's health via nutrition and preventing nutrition-related illness in the general population. Nutritionists in public health make it easy for individuals to be active and eat well. They know how to turn research into voluntary food and nutrition programmers, policies, systems, and environmental change methods that improve the environment and encourage healthy choices. According to the World Health Organization, public health refers to all systematic (public or private) actions taken to prevent disease, enhance health, and extend life in the general population. Its efforts are aimed at creating conditions that allow people to be healthy, and it focuses on entire communities rather than single individuals or diseases. As a result, public health is concerned about the entire system.