Director The goals of the Division of Human Nutrition are to develop new, practical approaches for the assessment of nutritional status, to improve understanding of the biochemical and metabolic processes associated with nutritional diseases, and to propose effective strategies for the prevention of those diseases. As part of the Department of International Health, the division 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 division's faculty, which includes pediatricians, biochemists, epidemiologists, physiologists, anthropologists, and biostatisticians. Beyond their primary specialty, all division faculty have expertise in public health nutrition and in field work in developing countries. International collaborative research is currently taking place in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Peru, Tanzania, Thailand, and Zimbabwe.
Faculty are in residence in Nepal and Zimbabwe.