The Designated Emphasis in International and Community Nutrition is a cross-disciplinary program that allows Ph.D. students to receive specialized training in the area. Students completing this program receive a formal notation on their degrees. Participating students evaluate and tackle nutritional problems affecting lower income communities or disadvantaged groups globally. Faculty and students conduct research in the United States and abroad.
The Designated Emphasis in International and Community Nutrition has five participating graduate groups:
- Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology (GGNB)
- Human Development Graduate Group (HDGG)
- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (DARE)
- Department of Anthropology (DAn)
- Graduate Group in Epidemiology (GGE)
More information about the Designated Emphasis in International and Community Nutrition is available on the Institute for Global Nutrition website: