HN 704 is a basic course required for all MPhil
Human Nutrition students. The course will introduce students to the common
concepts of epidemiology to understand relationship between food intake and
health outcomes. The course will give an overview of measures of disease
frequencies and associations, common research designs in nutritional
epidemiology, and causal inferences.
- Teacher: Khalid Iqbal
- Teacher: Hajira Ghani
Course will introduce students to life-cycle
approach in nutrition starting from pre-conception. However, the focus is on
physiological requirement, nutritional problems and strategies to address these
problems in pregnant and lactating women, infants and young children. The
students will learn about increased nutritional needs in pregnancy, strategies
to increase nutrient intake, promotion of healthy eating and consequences of
malnutrition in pregnancy; importance of breast feeding including early
initiation, colostrum provision to newborns, exclusive breast feeding and
continued breastfeeding; introduction of complimentary foods after six months,
nutrient requirement for young children and strategies to promote adequate
nutrient intake among children.
- Teacher: Khalid Iqbal