Section Name Description
Module 1: Lesson 1: Public Health Nutrition URL Basic Principles of Nutrition Science

Read under the headlines "Basic Principles of Nutrition Science" and "What you need to know about the science of nutrition". (5 minutes)

Getsmarter2019

URL Public Health and Community

Read the two first paragraphs under the title "Public Health and Community". (1 minute)

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics2021

URL What Is Population Health?

Read the complete article. (3 minutes)

Elmhurst  University 2021

Module 1: Lesson 2: The Human Body and Its Nutritional Needs URL Human Body Organ Systems

Read the complete article. (13 minutes)

Hill & Ponton, P.A. - 2018

URL Body Functions & Life Process

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

National Cancer Institute - 2018

URL What are Nutrients?

Read the entire webpage. (18 minutes)

Libre Texts Libraries - 2020

URL Nutrition Energy

Read the entire webpage. (14 minutes)

Australian Government Department of Health - 2013

URL Classification of Nutrients

Read the entire content and see the videos. (25 minutes)

Libre Texts Medicine - 2021

URL Oxygen – a critical, but overlooked, nutrient

Read the entire webpage. (3 minutes)

The Nutrition Society - 2021

URL Nutrients .

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

The department of Health - 2013

URL Food groups and sub-groups

Read the entire page. (28 minutes)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 

URL Nutritional Requirements throughout the Life Cycle

Read the complete article. (20 minutes)

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Unbound Medicine - 2020

URL The relationship between lifestyle components and dietary patterns

Read the content under the heading "Other lifestyle components in relation to dietary patterns" to the end of the article. (24 minutes)

The Proceedings of Nutrition Society - 2020

URL Food and your life stages

Read the entire webpage. (17 minutes)

Better Health Channel  - 2021

URL Metabolism .

Read from the beginning of the webpage to the end of the section, "The carrier of Chemical Energy", then read the content under the headings "Catabolism", "Anabolism" and "Integration of catabolism and anabolism". (27 minutes)

Britannica - 2020

URL Malnutrition .

Read the entire webpage. (8 minutes)

WHO - 2020

URL Combined diet and physical activity is better than diet or physical activity alone at improving health outcomes for patients in New Zealand’s primary care intervention

Read the content under "Background," "Discussion," and "Conclusion." (9 minutes)

NCBI - 2018

URL Defining a Healthy Diet: Evidence for the Role of Contemporary Dietary Patterns in Health and Disease

Read the entire web page. (36 minutes)

NCBI - 2020

URL Digestion and Absorption

Read the entire web page. (14 minutes)

Pressbooks - 2020

URL Physiology of Intestinal Absorption and Secretion

Read the entire document. (50 minutes)

NCBI - 2016

URL The Functions of Carbohydrates in the Body

Read the entire page. (8 minutes)

LibreTexts libraries - 2020

URL Food Processing and Nutrition

Read the entire page. (7 minutes)

Victoria State Government - 2012

URL Front-of-Package (FOP) Food Labelling: Empowering Consumers to Make Healthy Choices

Read the entire document. (25 minutes)

Global Food Research Program - 2020

URL Nutrition facts tables

Read the web page to learn about how to read a food label. Knowing how to read a food label is important in making informed dietary choices. (15 minutes)

Government of Canada - 2019

URL The Nutrition Source: Antioxidants

Read the entire web page. (11 minutes)

Harvard School of Public Heath - 2019

URL Dietary fibre

Read the entire web page. (12 minutes)

Better Health Channel - 2021

URL How alcohol affects your health

Read the entire web page. (3 minutes)

Health Direct - 2020

URL Alcohol and Nutrition

Read the entire web page. (5 minutes)

Drug, Alcohol and Prevention Services Division, Mental Health Commission - 2021

URL Sugar Substitutes & Non-Nutritive Sweeteners

Read the entire web page. (10 minutes)

Cleveland Clinic - 2019

URL American Heart Association Comments on the World Health Organization's "Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children"

Students should read the entire article, which discusses the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on sugar intake for adults and children as a step toward reducing the mortality associated with non-communicable diseases. (10 minutes)

American Heart Association - 2014

URL 9. List of Permitted Sweeteners (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)

Read through the page to learn about which sweeteners are permitted in Canada. (10 minutes)

Government of Canada - 2018

Module 1: Lesson 3: Nutritional Epidemiology and Research Methods URL Nutritional epidemiology: New perspectives for understanding the diet-disease relationship?

Read the entire content. (32 minutes)

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition  - 2013

URL The Role of Biostatistics in Public Health

Read the entire webpage. (20 minutes)

Regis College - 2021

URL What is Health Research?

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

Harvard Countway Library  - 2020

URL Healthcare Research Methods

Read from "Research Paradigms" until end of chapter. (68 minutes)

Jones and Bartlett Publishers - 2013

URL The Health Research Process

Read from Section 1.1 to the end of Section 1.3. (7 minutes)

JB Publishing - 2016

URL Steps to Developing a Research Project: Resources to Help

Read the entire webpage. (10 minutes)

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - 2022

URL Challenges in conducting clinical nutrition research

Read the entire article. (40 minutes)

NCBI 2017

URL Biostatistics series module 5: Determining sample size

Read the entire web page. (38 minutes)

Indian Journal of Dermatology - 2016

URL Global Nutrition Report

Browse through the webpage and look at the different reports available on the site. (15 minutes)

Global Nutrition Report - 2021

URL Data & Statistics

Read the entire web page. (15 minutes)

NCBI - 2016

Module 2: Lesson 1: Food Sources and Sustainability URL Food Sustainability in the Context of Human Behavior

Read the entire article. (23 minutes)

NCBI - 2018

URL Cultural Considerations in Nutrition and Food Preparation

Read the entire document. (8 minutes)

California Department of Social Services - 2013

URL Food sustainability: problems, perspectives and solutions

Read the entire journal article. (50 minutes)

Cambridge University Press - 2013

Module 2: Lesson 2: Food Systems and Security URL Food Security and the 2015–2030 Sustainable Development Goals: From Human to Planetary Health

Read the entire journal article. (31 minutes)

NCBI - 2017

URL About Food Systems

Read the entire document. (25 minutes)

Food Systems Dashboard - 2020

URL Sustainable food systems—a health perspective

Read the entire journal article. (40 minutes)

Springer - 2018

URL Viewpoint: The case for a six-dimensional food security framework

Read from the beginning until the heading "4. From ‘de facto’ to ‘de jure’: The need to formalize the six dimensions of food security". (42 minutes)

ScienceDirect

URL Food Processing and Impact on Nutrition

Read the entire journal article. (38 minutes)

Scholars Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences - 2015

URL Big Food’s Ambivalence: Seeking Profit and Responsibility for Health

Read the entire journal article. (23 minutes)

NCBI - 2017

Module 3: Lesson 1: Nutritional Health Policy URL Measuring Success: Evaluation Article Types for the Public Health Education and Promotion Section of Frontiers in Public Health

Read the entire article. (14 minutes)

NCBI - 2014

URL Policy Development Framework

Read the content under the headings "Principles" and "Consistent and Predictable Process Steps " in pages 3 to 7. (12 minutes)

Alberta Health Services - 2016

URL Healthy Public Policy Toolkit: Advocacy

Read the content under the heading "PART 1: DEFINING ADVOCACY" in pages 2 and 3. (3 minutes)

Winnipeg regional health authority - 2017

URL Principles of Responsible Public Policy Advocacy

Read the entire page. (10 minutes)

AALEP  - 2022

URL Food and Nutrition

Read the entire page. (4 minutes)

U.S. Department of Agriculture - 2021

URL Public Health Nutrition: Organizations and Associations

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

University of California - 2022

URL Role of government policy in nutrition—barriers to and opportunities for healthier eating

Read the entire article.  (33 minutes)

The BMJ  - 2018

URL Successful nutrition policies - country examples

Read the entire document. (10 minutes)

WHO - 2014

URL Nutrition Policy

Read the "Executive Summary" in pages 1 to 3. (9 minutes)

World Food Programme - 2017

Module 3: Lesson 2: The Social Determinants of Health URL Social Determinants of Health

Read the entire webpage. (3 minutes)

Healthy People 2030  - 2022

URL Culture and its Influence on Nutrition and Oral Health

Read the entire page. (25 minutes)

Biomedical and Pharmacology Jourmal  - 2015

URL Chapter 4: Individual, Household, and Environmental Factors Affecting Food Choices and Access

Read the entire chapter. (98 minutes)

National Academy of Sciences  - 2013

URL Interventions promoting healthy eating as a tool for reducing social inequalities in diet in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Introduction," "Discussion," and "Conclusion." (16 minutes)

International Journal for Equity in Health - 2016

URL Report on Emerging and Ongoing Issues - Annual Report 2019

Read from the beginning of the article until the heading "Stakeholder engagement in emerging issues." (16 minutes)

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) - 2019

URL EU Insights – Consumer perceptions of emerging risks in the food chain

Read the content under the heading "Conclusions" on pages 31-33. (14 minutes)

ICF - 2018

URL Economic globalization, nutrition and health: a review of quantitative evidence

Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Introduction," "Discussion and interpretation," and "Conclusion and implications for policy and research." (22 minutes)

Biomed Central- Globalisation and Health  - 2019

URL Social marketing-based interventions to promote healthy nutrition behaviors: a systematic review protocol

Read the content under the heading "Background." (8 minutes)

BioMed Central Ltd- Systematic Reviews  - 2021

URL A Summative Evaluation of a Food Safety Social Marketing Campaign “4-Day Throw-Away” Using Traditional and Social Media

Read the entire article. (27 minutes)

Katie J. James, Julie A. Albrecht, Ruth E. Litchfield, and Christopher A. Weishaa - 2013

Module 3: Lesson 3: Developing Intervention Programs Based on A Community's Nutrition Needs URL Community Needs Assessment

Read section 2 "Plan for a Community Needs Assessment" in pages 12 to 26. (25 minutes)

CDC - 2013

URL Models and Theories to Support Health Behavior Intervention and Program Planning

Read the entire document.  (15 minutes)

Purdue Extension- Health and Human Sciences - 2015

URL Section 1. Designing Community Interventions

Read the entire page. (25 minutes)

Community Toolbox (University of Kansas) - 2013

URL Six Components Necessary for Effective Public Health Program Implementation

Read the article to understand the 6-step approach to public health program implementation. (30 minutes)

Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH - 2014

URL At A Glance: The six steps for planning a health promotion program

Read the document to understand the 6-step approach to public health program planning. (7 minutes)

Queen’s Printer for Ontario, Public Health Ontario - 2015

URL Program Planning & Evaluation

Read the summary on Page 3. (2 minutes)

AFHTO - 2018

Module 3: Lesson 4: Acquiring Funding for Nutrition Programs URL Grant Lifecycle Timeline

Read the entire webpage. (5 minutes)

Grants.gov

URL Common Components of Grant Proposals

Read the entire webpage. (minutes)

University of Southern Indiana

URL Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal: The Basics

Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

University of Wisconsin

URL 14. Applying for Grants

Read the web page. This resource belongs to this course because it provides students with grant writing skills which will enable them to seek funding for public health and food and nutrition programs and services. (28 minutes)

The Community Tool Box, Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas  - 2013

Module 4: Lesson 1: Ethical Issues and Codes of Conduct URL Ethical issues for human nutrition in the context of global food security

Read the entire article. (43 minutes)

Elsevier B.V. - 2015

URL Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Revised 2017 Standards of Practice in Nutrition Care and Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists

Read the following sections:
1. Why Are the Standards Important for RDNs?
2. How Does the Academy’s Scope of Practice for the RDN Guide the Practice and Performance of RDNs in All Settings?
 
(3 minutes)

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics home - 2017

URL International Code of Ethics and Code of Good Practice for Dietitians-Nutritionists

Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

International Confederation of Dietetic Associations - 2014

URL Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related public health policies and interventions: A scoping review

Read the entire article. (37 minutes)

PLOS ONE - 2018

URL Ethical Issues in Eating Disorders Treatment: Four Illustrative Scenarios

Read the entire article. (28 minutes)

American Counseling Association  - 2013

URL Research Governance Framework

Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

Department of Health WA | - 2022

URL Advancing health research through research governance

Read the entire article. (30 minutes)

BMJ - 2018

Module 5: Lesson 1: Energy Balance and Nutritional Requirements URL Energy balance and its components: implications for body weight regulation

Read the content under "INTRODUCTION," "QUESTION 1" and "QUESTION 2." ( 23 minutes)

American Society of Nutrition - 2012

URL Control of energy expenditure in humans

Read the entire article.  (19 minutes)

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition  - 2016

URL 2.7: Understanding Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)

Read the entire page. (9 minutes)

LibreTexts - 2020

URL DRI Calculator for Healthcare Professionals

Explore the webpage. This "Interactive DRI for Healthcare Professionals" is a useful tool to calculate individual Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) values. Students can input their age, sex, height, weight, and activity level, and the tool produces personalized dietary intake levels. (5 minutes)

Food and Nutrition Information Center

URL Dietary Reference Intakes

Read and explore the resources associated with this to learn more about Dietary Reference Intakes. (10 minutes)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Module 5: Lesson 2: Methods of Nutritional Assessment URL Nutrition, Metabolism, and GI Research in HIV

Read the entire web page. (20 minutes)

CFAR - 2014

URL Dietary assessment methods in epidemiologic studies

Read the entire article and analyze Table 1 and Table 2. (27 minutes)

Epidemiology and Health - 2014

URL Dietary Assessment Toolkits: An Overview

Read the following sections: "Introduction," "The case for toolkits to guide dietary assessment choice," "Overview of dietary assessment toolkits," and "Discussion." (42 minutes)

Europe PMC Funder's Group - 2010

URL Measuring diet in the 21st century: use of new technologies

Read the entire article. (24 minutes)

Cambridge University Press - 2016

URL Nutrition Assessment and Classification (NACS User's Guide)

Read the section "What are the different types of nutrition assessment? (pgs. 3-12). (26 minutes)

USAID'S Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance - 2016

URL ASA24 Demo

Explore the demo to learn more about the use of the ASA24 tool. (15 minutes)

National Institute of Health - 2020

URL ASA24 Register/Login

This page allows you to create a Researcher Account which is needed to register to use ASA24 in a study, clinical setting, or classroom. (5 minutes)

National Institute of Health - 2020

URL ASA24 .

Use this page to log in and use the tool. (15 minutes)

National Institute of Health - 2020

Module 5: Lesson 3: Approaches for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention URL Defining Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Read the entire article. (2 minutes)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA):Rural Health Information Hub - 2018

URL Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Theories and Models.

Read the entire article. Click on the headings of "Ecological Models," "The Health Belief Model," "Stages of Change Model (Transtheoretical Model)," "Social Cognitive Theory," and "Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior." (9 minutes)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Rural Health Information Hub - 2018

URL Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies

Read the page including all the contents of the following hyperlinks:
Health Communication
Health Education
Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change. (11 minutes)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA):Rural Health Information Hub - 2018

URL Strategies for Health Promotion: Healthy Dietary Habits

Read the section "Strategies to Promote Healthy Dietary Habits" on pages 6-13. (22 minutes)

Memorial University - 2014

URL Towards integrated food policy: Main challenges and steps ahead

Read Section 2: Five food policy integration challenges. (11 minutes)

Science Direct - 2017

URL Interventions promoting healthy eating as a tool for reducing social inequalities in diet in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Read the content under the heading "Abstract", "Introduction", "Results", and "Discussion". (31 minutes)

International Journal for Equity in Health - 2016

URL Community Interventions to Improve Cooking Skills and Their Effects on Confidence and Eating Behaviour

Read entire article. (30 minutes)

PMC Labs - 2016

URL Nutrition Education in US Schools

Read entire article. (5 minutes)

CDC - 2021

Module 5: Lesson 4: From Scientific Principles to Health Promotion URL Functional components and medicinal properties of food: a review

Read the entire article. (38 minutes)

Journal of Food Science and Technology - 2015

URL Nutrient-Drug Interactions and Food

Read this fact sheet titled "Nutrient-Drug Interactions and Food" to learn about important interactions between common drugs and food. (15 minutes)

L. Bellows and R. Moore - 2013

URL General principles for all claim

Read the sections "Introduction', "General Principles for all claims," "Nutrition Claims," and "Health Claims" at the end of each section; click on the: "Next page" to access the next one. (13 minutes)

Food Standards Agency - 2022

URL Acceptable disease risk reduction claims and therapeutic claims

Read through the web page to learn about acceptable health claims in Canada. (30 minutes)

Canadian Food and Inspection Agency - 2018

URL Food law general principles

Read the entire page. (15 minutes)

L. Bellows, R. Moore and A. Gross - 2013

URL Food laws & regulations

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

FAO/UN - 2020

URL Strategies for optimizing maternal nutrition to promote infant development

Read the section: Strategies for improving maternal nutrition. (16 minutes)

Hambridge et al - 2018

URL Guidance on Ending the Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children

Read Section III, "Guidance Recommendations and their Rationale," on pages 7 -13. (27 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2021

URL Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development

Read the introduction and the section named "What works for in adolescent nutrition?" (26 minutes)

Hargreaves et al - 2021

URL Improving nutrition to support healthy ageing: what are the opportunities for intervention?

Read the following sections:
- Identifying opportunities for prevention
- Lifecourse perspectives
- Conclusion, (13 minutes)

NBCI - 2018

URL A Comparison of Strategies to Improve Population Diets: Government Policy versus Education and Advice

Read the entire page. (28 minutes)

Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism - 2020

URL Strategies for Healthy Eating Promotion and Behavioral Change Perceived as Effective by Nutrition Professionals: A Mixed-Methods Study

Read the entire article. (41 minutes)

Frontiers in Nutrition - 2020

Module 6: Lesson 1: Cultural Sensitivity and nutrition URL Food and health: individual, cultural, or scientific matters?

Read the following sections of the article:
- Scientific and cultural approaches to food
- Integrating scientific and cultural perspectives of food. (10 minutes)

PMC lABS - 2013

URL Cultural Considerations in Nutrition and Food Preparation

Read the entire document. (8 minutes)

Department of Social Services - 2013

URL Social modeling of eating: A review of when and why social influence affects food intake and choice

Read the content under the following sections: "Introduction", "Theoretical implications" and "practical implications." (15 minutes)

T. Cruwys et al. - 2014

URL Cultural adaptations of obesity-related behavioral prevention interventions in early childhood: A systematic review

Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Introduction," "Results," "Discussion," and "Conclusion." (30 minutes)

Obesity Reviews - 2021

Module 6: Lesson 2: Education for All Societal Levels URL Moving Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Forward

Read the entire article. (22 minutes)

USAID - 2018

URL The need to advance nutrition education in the training of health care professionals and recommended research to evaluate implementation and effectiveness

Read the entire article. (46 minutes)

NCBI - 2014

URL Education of the Public: Strategies and Actions for Implementation

Read the entire article. (60 minutes)

NCBI - 2016

URL Implementing health promotion activities using community-engaged approaches in Asian American faith-based organizations in New York City and New Jersey

Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Background," "Results," "Discussion," and "Conclusions." (36 minutes)

Translational Behavioral Medicine - 2017

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