HNSC 7244X: Nutritional Epidemiology

Semester: FALL 2024

Class time: Online synchronous

Class location: Online

Instructor: Margrethe F. Horlyck-Romanovsky

Office location: Room 439 West Quad or Online in Blackboard Collaborate Classroom

Office hour: Thursdays 5:30-6:30 PM

Contact email: MargretheHR@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Office phone: 718-951-5000, Ext. 2753

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Principles and methods of nutritional epidemiology. Analysis and interpretation of local, national, and global food and nutrition survey tools and data. Critical investigation of the population-level contribution of food and nutrition to racial and ethnic inequities in health and diet-related disease.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe common epidemiological dietary assessment methods and survey designs.
2. Explain how nutritional epidemiology contributes to the population assessment, policy and intervention design, and monitoring of the population level impact of food environments, nutrition interventions and policy.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of how structural and systemic inequities in access to healthy food and health promotion activities contribute to diet related health outcomes.
4. Conduct epidemiological analysis of one or more New York City or US-based epidemiological surveys with nutrition components.
5. Explain the relationships between population-level nutrition patterns and health outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

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By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Apply scientific knowledge to assess critically health data/information and indicators of health status at individual, societal, and structural levels.
2. Demonstrate analytical and communication skills for diverse audiences.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of scientific research and evidence-based practice for use in the field.
4. Demonstrate the importance of professional behavior, ethics and human rights.