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:
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:
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
