Department of Community Nutrition

Community nutrition is an area within the nutritional sciences concerned with promotion of health and prevention of disease in communities and populations.

Definition:

Community nutrition is a branch in nutrition science which covers a vast area of food and nutrition related to individuals, households, and the needs of special groups residing in specific geographical locations. In this field, most people are regarded in the form of groups, community, and populations. Moreover, community nutrition has been defined as “the translation and conversion of nutrition sciences in designing and managing effective and appropriate programs for the community, and bettering nutrition in order to provide food and nutrition in the context of human rights and development”.  Community nutrition emphasizes on achieving food and nutrition security for the population, while the nutrition in public health focuses on nutritional services.

Vision:

Providing grounds for community-oriented education based on the national culture and compatible to sustainable development which:

- can realize the science of nutrition form cell to society level and developing service and administrative skills of those graduated in the field,

- will be able to promote inter-sectoral approach in nutrition aiming at sustainable development based on national plans and policies and the articles at both national and small scale levels. 

Mission:

Preparing suitable grounds in education and research in line with moving towards realizing food and nutrition security, aiming finally at bettering life quality within Iranian society 

Goals: 

A-Training community nutrition specialists aiming at inter-sectoral collaboration who can initiate the following:

1. Designing and managing plans and policies related to food and nutrition and rendering effective, efficient, coordinated, and balanced services;
2. Training and applying bottom-up planning in managing food and nutrition plans in the country;
3. Establishing and initiating a unified inter-sectoral approach in education, research, and in-service education of food and nutrition;
4. Training and educating efficient human resources (leaders) in applying nutrition science and related fields in achieving food and nutrition security in the community;
5. Advocacy for support of policy-makers and planners at macro levels for providing suitable nutrition in community;
6. Coordinating educational and research activities and developing and planning educational activities for offering courses in community nutrition through: 

6.1-supervising the methods of offering courses as well as reviewing and commenting on the text books and their contents in community nutrition;

6.2- Reviewing and designing the research proposals, and offering them to the education and research councils of the SBMU school of Nutrition Sciences and Food technology;

6.3- Annual evaluation of the department in order to present at the education and research councils;

6.4- Reviewing and commenting on the curricular programs and revising them as well as determining the course contents based on the latest knowledge and developments;

6.5- Training skilled experts and specialists in nutrition science in various academic levels 

The educational & research activities of the department include the following:

1. Teaching community nutrition at BSc, MSc, and PhD programs in different disciplines;
2. Teaching and preparing curricula for all of the courses offered;
3. Supervising and evaluating the ways the courses are offered, both text-wise and content-wise based on the approved curricular programs;
4. Authoring and translating scientific books and textbooks in the field of community nutrition in order to enhance students’ and researchers’ access;
5. Designing and implementing research projects;
6. Training and supervising the students in their MSc thesis and PhD dissertation proposals;
7. Holding educational workshops for the academic staff, students, and those active in the field; 

Tel.: (+98)- 21- 2207- 7424 

Nasrin Omidvar
Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Professor
Head of Department
Research interest: Food & Nutrition Security; Design & Evaluation of interventions for dietary Behavior change; Food environment
Nasrin.omidvar@sbmu.ac.ir
omidvar.nasrin@gmail.com

Naser Kalantari

MD, Pediatrician, Professor
Research interest: Child Growth & Development; Early Childhood Development (ECD) Food & Nutrition Security
Nkalantari1334@gmail.com
nkalantari@sbmu.ac.ir

Bahram RashidKhani

MD; MPH, Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology, Professor
Research interest: Cancer Epidemiology From Nutrition Perspective
B_rashidkhani@sbmu.ac.ir

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Hassan Eini-Zinab

MA, Ph.D. in Sociology (Population & Health), Associate Professor
Research interest: Food and Nutrition Systems, Sustainable Diets, Food and Nutrition Policy
hassan.eini@gmail.com

Jalaledin Mirzay Razzaz

MD, Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Associate Professor
Research interest: Diabetes & Nutrition, GM Foods, Nutrition in Aged People
jmrazzaz@sbmu.ac.ir

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Arezoo Rezazadeh

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Associate Professor
Research interest: Nutritional Assessment, Nutritional Epidemiology of Obesity and Malnutrition, Nutrition in Pregnancy, Lactation, Old Age and Special Groups
arezoo.rezazadeh@sbmu.ac.ir
arezoo.rezazadeh@gmail.com

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Marjan Bazhan

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Nutritional Behavior and its Determinants, Interventions to Change Nutritional Behavior and Promote Healthy Eating

marjanbazhan@sbmu.ac.ir
marjanbazhan@yahoo.com

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Arezoo Haghighian

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Food Choice and its Determinants, Sustainable Diets, Social Determinants of Nutrition, Food and Nutrition Systems, Food Waste Determinants
ahaghighian@yahoo.com

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Saeid Doaei

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor

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