Our Vision
Generate and communicate knowledge across the spectrum of nutrition research to optimize
holistic health for all people using systems perspectives.
Goals and Objectives
- Build capacity to address the grand challenges in nutrition research
- Engage students from units across the university in a training program that exposes them to the breadth of nutrition and food research
- Facilitate linkages with community partnerships
- Facilitate linkages with clinical partners
- Convene and facilitate research collaborations
- Maintain an information hub for the kinds of research perspectives and approaches used by affiliates
- Host annual symposium on a theme related to grand challenges
- Distribute a newsletter highlighting recent publications and grants of affiliates
- Build a local, statewide and national presence in nutrition research
- Identify grand challenges facing nutrition
- Develop a training program for students interested in the broad view of nutrition research
The Nutrition Consortium's Research Foci
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Food Security
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Food Choice
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Dietary Patterns
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Maternal, Infant, and Child Nutrition
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Preventing Childhood Obesity
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Technology
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Healthy Aging
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Performance Nutrition
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Global Nutrition