Vision
Transforming lives through nutrition discovery and education.
Mission
The Mission of the Nutrition Department is to solve complex nutrition challenges through transformative approaches, from cells to communities, to enhance human health.
Values
Cultivate scientific curiosity and integrity for educational and professional growth
Collaborate in a supportive and inclusive environment built on caring and mutual respect
Contribute to an equitable society through world class research, education, training and outreach.
Signature areas
- Developmental nutrition with emphasis on maternal health, pregnancy outcomes, infant and child development and early determinants of adult disease
- Systems biology and precision nutrition to predict nutritional impacts on health, assess nutritional status and evaluate response to nutrition and lifestyle interventions
- Community and global outreach through development and evaluation of multidimensional nutrition interventions and policies
Programmatic Expertise
- Maternal, infant and child nutrition
- Cellular and integrative metabolism
- Nutri-omics approaches and big data in nutrition
- Nutrition of diverse populations in international and domestic settings
- Nutrition education in schools, communities and food assistance programs
- Clinical nutrition and biomarkers of nutritional effects on health and disease
- Life cycle nutrition, from mechanisms and models of development through chronic disease