Getting Nutrition and Training Wherever You Can Find Them

When searching for public health training, you may need to look beyond departments or degrees with the specific topic in the title. Some public health degrees are general, with specific concentrations or minors.

For example, one of the doctoral level nutrition programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of the PhD program in the Department of International Health. See more info and links to this program below.

A good way to find specific programs, e.g., nutrition degree or other training programs, is via databases or lists like the one offered by the Associations of Schools of Public Health.

About PhD training in Human Nutrition at Hopkins, copied from their website:

Human Nutrition
Dr. Keith West, Jr., Director

The goals of the Human Nutrition program are to

• develop new, practical approaches for the assessment of nutritional status
• improve understanding of the biochemical and metabolic processes associated with nutritional diseases
• propose effective strategies for the prevention of those diseases

As part of the Department of International Health, the program focuses on nutritional issues of developing countries, although it also works on domestic issues in coordination with the Center for Human Nutrition. The multidisciplinary nature of nutrition is reflected in the program’s faculty, which includes pediatricians, biochemists, epidemiologists, physiologists, anthropologists, and biostatisticians. Beyond their primary specialty, all program faculty have expertise in public health nutrition and in field work in developing countries.