Public Health Nutrition - Master in Health Sciences Oslo Metropolitan University

Overview

You will gain insight into health-promoting and preventive work, and how different strategies and measures that promote healthy and sustainable diets can be implemented and evaluated. 

The Public Health Nutrition - Master in Health Sciences programme at Oslo Metropolitan University also provides insight into key political actors and processes relating to food and nutrition. It includes national and global perspectives with particular focus on the relationship between food systems, diet and sustainability.

You will:

• Gain insight into how food and nutrition policy, as well as social, cultural, economic and climate-related factors, relate to the health and nutrition situation at a local, national and global level.
• Learn how to monitor and assess the extent and causes of diet and nutritional challenges among different population groups.
• Be able to use theories, models and strategies, as well as knowledge of political actors and processes to plan, implement and evaluate nutrition-related, health promoting and preventive interventions and policies.
• Can promote equitable access to safe, healthy and sustainable food through all life phases at a local, national and global level.