About
Background
At the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Center for Human Nutrition within the Department of International Health was established in 1991. The Center provides an umbrella for collaboration and scientific exchange across other departments and centers within the School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The Center is a hub for nutrition expertise and resources, provides a platform for collaboration, generates new ideas, and initiates nutrition research and practice activities.
Core Principles
The core principles around which the Center operates include:
- Collaborative problem-solving: Working across multi-disciplinary teams and with diverse stakeholders to develop and deploy multifactorial approaches and collaborative solutions to complex global nutrition problems.
- Enhanced knowledge-sharing: Partnerships within and outside Hopkins can enhance the wider sharing of expertise and knowledge with diverse stakeholders, including non-academic partners. This knowledge exchange can lead to more effective programs and policies.
- Increased impact: By working with multiple stakeholders, the Center can leverage resources and expertise to implement programs and policies at scale, leading to a more significant impact on global nutrition.
- Improved capacity-building: Increasingly, the role of such a Center can embrace building the capacity of local organizations and universities to conduct research to implement effective nutrition programs and policies.
Other Components of the Center for Human Nutrition
Faculty
The Center encompasses a multidisciplinary group of faculty from across the University.
What We Do
The Center's research stretches from the local food environment in Baltimore to encompass nutrition and health challenges in low- and middle-income contexts globally.
Collaborations
The Center works with multiple organizations and research groups with similar interests and priorities in tackling complex issues in the fields of food and nutrition.