The UC Berkeley Food, Nutrition and Population Health Program trains future leaders in food and nutrition practice, policy and research to identify emerging nutrition and food-systems challenges and solutions and evaluate their impact. Students in PHN will gain a perspective on the following critical questions:
-What are the most critical social, behavioral, and food and nutrition-related factors that affect health?
-What are ways that the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs can improve the nutritional status of the population or subgroups in the population?
-How can nutrition and food related public policies affect health, especially in vulnerable populations?
-How can global, national, state, and local community programs be designed to improve the nutritional status of the population as a whole and those at particular risk? The MPH in PHN prepares students for work in state or local government or nonprofit health agencies, or other community, policy development or research organizations that deal with health and nutrition policy and program design, implementation, and evaluation. PHN graduates have held positions at Policy Link, the Prevention Institute, Samuels and Associates, the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health, UCSF, Berkeley Media Studies Group, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, and California Food Policy Advocates.
