Many of this century's health challenges will be related to food and agriculture policies: food safety, security and cost; famines and obesity; climate change etc. The field of public health nutrition will therefore emerge as a high profile and important profession globally.
Every year, hundreds of young people trained in public health nutrition graduate around the world. They wish to make a meaningful contribution to the international arena of public health and to successfully integrate into the global health workforce. In an effort to bring together these young professionals, a group of young public health nutritionists founded the Young Public Health Nutrition (YPHN) Network.
The vision of the YPHN Network is to advance and promote international public health nutrition by uniting young public health nutritionists and facilitating collaboration and cooperation among them.
In order to pursue this, the YPHN Network aims: to devise approaches for young public health nutritionists to influence relevant policies; to provide opportunities to enable the exchange of individuals, and ideas across institutions and networks, within and between countries; and to collaborate with other public health nutrition initiatives, including the Steering Committee of the New Nutrition Science project and the World Public Health Nutrition Association.
The YPHN Network is open to all who are interested in improving the next generation of public health nutrition: 'young', proficient and more senior experts in public health nutrition, with experience and knowledge to pass on to the others, are welcome to join.
A blog site has been created, and is accessible to all interested individuals through the link: http://yphnutrition.blogspot.com/.
For further information or if you wish to become a member of this network please contact us:
mailto:yph.nutrition@gmail.com