Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health course provide by university of leeds
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Week 1:
How do we keep the world’s food safe?
How do we define nutrients and nutrient requirements?
How are food safety and nutrition connected?
Week 2:
What are the global challenges to food safety?
Global food scares and scandals
Hidden global challenges and chronic exposures
Week 3:
What are the global challenges in food and health?
Macronutrients: A question of quality and balance
Micronutrient deficiency: Solutions to a global challenge
Enhance your knowledge of global food safety and nutrition issues
Food security is reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, safe, and nutritious food
On this three week course, you’ll learn some of the challenges of ensuring food security faced by researchers, policymakers and individuals worldwide
Understand food safety and nutrition issues and why they occur on a global scale
You’ll explore how large-scale change (industrialisation, globalisation, population growth and climate change) affects food safety and understand the consequences for the world’s health and nutrition
Uncover the evolving challenges of ensuring food safety
Using examples from current research, you’ll explore common and emerging global food safety issues
You’ll investigate some well- documented food scandals and scares as well as hidden or chronic exposures to contaminated food before you discover innovations designed to counter food safety risks
Explore today’s pressing global nutrition issues
As you consider whose responsibility it is to maintain the safety of our food, you’ll learn the biological function of different nutrients and examine the global impact of nutrient deficiency and malnutrition
You’ll also explore global nutrition challenges and ways of reducing the burden of malnutrition and nutrition deficiencies You’ll consider the difficulties in meeting macronutrient and micronutrient requirements and explore research into developing sustainable responses to the world’s nutritional needs
Learn from industry experts
This course draws from innovative research into food safety and nutrition conducted by the University of Leeds, Jiangsu University in China, and The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania
This course is financially supported by the British Council.
This course is designed to educate and train the next generation of scientists in food safety, nutrition, and agriculture and broaden public awareness of food security issues
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