The MSPH Nutrition Program emphasizes the social and environmental determinants of nutrition problems and how to solve them through nutritional assessment of populations, community nutrition actions, health promotion programs, and food and nutrition policies. The program trains future public health nutritionists to manage programs and shape policies that improve the nutritional health and food security of populations. A full spectrum of contexts is addressed, including humanitarian crises in low-income countries, problems of sustainable development in low– and middle–income countries, and dual burden problems (under– and over–nutrition) common to middle- and high-income countries.

The mission of the MSPH Nutrition Program is to train future public health leaders to shape policies, administer programs, and to communicate to the public to improve the nutritional health and food security of population groups across a full spectrum of economic contexts.