Explore the evolution of public health and nutrition, understand essential services, and discover strategies for addressing mental health, environmental influences, and nutritional challenges, all while gaining insights into historical contexts and modern approaches.
India’s kitchen gardens fight hidden hunger with nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, offering a sustainable food-based solution for better health.
Learn about food fortification, a powerful public health tool that adds essential nutrients to everyday foods to combat hidden hunger and improve nutrition.
Nutrition education bridges the knowledge-practice gap, promoting healthier food choices through participatory methods, focusing on critical life stages & effective messaging.
Micronutrient supplementation: A fast, medicinal strategy to address severe nutrient deficiencies, debated for its short-term benefits and long-term limitations in public health.
Learn how to design effective nutrition interventions by considering problem, population, resources, and policy for short, medium, long-term impact.
Vaccines protect children from preventable diseases, safeguarding nutrition, growth, and future health in India.
Bridging the nutrition gap: India’s supplementary feeding programmes for vulnerable groups, from ICDS to POSHAN Abhiyaan.
Biofortification uses plant breeding & biotech to enhance staple crops with vital nutrients, tackling hidden hunger in India. Learn about genetic tools & success stories.
Public nutrition depends on safe water, sanitation, and street food, not just diet. Learn how these impact child health.
India’s food paradox: plenty of food, but malnutrition persists. Explore solutions for nutrition security beyond grain sufficiency.
India’s National Nutrition Policy: A 1993 landmark addressing malnutrition through integrated, multi-sectoral strategies and successor programs.
India’s POSHAN Abhiyaan: a mission to combat malnutrition, its strategies, achievements, challenges, and transition to POSHAN 2.0.
Explore India’s ICDS scheme: a vital program for child health, nutrition, and early education via Anganwadi Centres.
India’s supplementary feeding programmes combat malnutrition for children, pregnant women, and the elderly via ICDS & PM POSHAN.
India’s micronutrient deficiency programs combat hidden hunger with vitamin A, iron, and iodine interventions, evolving over 5 decades.
India’s IYCN Programme promotes optimal infant & child nutrition through breastfeeding & complementary feeding, aiming for healthier lifelong outcomes.
Learn about India’s National Health Mission (NHM): its goals, components like RMNCH+A & ASHA, and impact on public health indicators.
Nutrition Education Communication: Setting clear objectives for measurable health outcomes. Learn about nutritional, educational, and communication goals.
Learn to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary audiences for effective nutrition communication campaigns.
Craft effective nutrition messages that drive behaviour change with principles of content, design, persuasion, and memorability.
Learn how to choose the right media channels (face-to-face, mass, folk) for effective nutrition education campaigns.
Learn to design nutrition communication strategies for effective behavior change, covering target audiences, messages, channels, and evaluation.
Bridging the gap between nutrition education plans and real-world impact through effective implementation, training, and communication.
Learn how effective nutrition communication materials like posters & flip charts are made, pretested, and distributed to reach communities.
Effective nutrition training for frontline workers: design, delivery, and evaluation for behavior change.
Nutrition communication execution: Target audiences, communication methods, and adapting strategies for effective behavior change.
Social marketing uses commercial tactics to promote healthy behaviors like better nutrition and disease reduction.
Empowering Indian nutrition programs with community participation: shifting from top-down to bottom-up for lasting health change.
Understand nutrition program evaluation: adequacy, effectiveness, efficiency, and planning for measurable results.
Nutrition education evaluation: Measure impact, improve efficiency, secure funding, and build scientific evidence for lasting dietary change.
Learn how to effectively evaluate nutrition education programs, ensuring they achieve meaningful change through integrated planning, ongoing monitoring, and contextual analysis.
Understand formative, process, and summative evaluation for effective nutrition program design, implementation, and outcome measurement.
Learn how dynamic, participatory evaluations empower communities to improve nutrition programs by involving stakeholders in continuous learning and adaptation.
Evaluating nutrition programs: how to measure real behavior change, not just knowledge, using rigorous methods and design.