This document provides a summary of various online nutrition courses available. It lists the course titles, content covered, duration, and provider. Courses range from a few weeks to 3 years long and cover topics like the basics of nutrition, undernutrition and obesity, food and nutrition security, nutrition counseling, and food systems and policy solutions. They are offered by universities, UN organizations, and dedicated e-learning platforms in collaboration with universities. The document asks the reader to reflect on what is already available, what is relevant, what is missing, and what capacity building approaches are suitable for specific nutrition content areas.

1. Nutrition online courses
A bird’s-eye view

2. METHODS
• Web search
• Reached out to friends and colleagues in nutrition sector
• Put together a matrix of courses (offered by, content covered,
duration, audience and weblinks)
LIMITATIONS
• Not comprehensive
• Not in-depth
• Missing information
• Matrix does not include information on components such as course
fee, eligibility criteria etc.

3. ABOUT THE COURSES
• Courses mainly offered by universities along with few UN
organizations and dedicated e learning platforms (collaborations with
universities)
• Duration: Variable from few weeks to up to 3 years.
• Audience: Students, government, INGOs, development sector,
academicians, epidemiologist, paediatricians, nutrition counsellors,
dieticians, health care professionals, food industry professionals,
communication experts etc.

4. CONTENT COVERED
• Basics of nutrition, the problem of undernutrition
• Overweight, obesity and other NCDs
• Determinants of nutrition
• Biology of nutrition
• Disease prevention and nutrition
• Multisectoral links of nutrition
• Food and nutrition security
• Nutrition education and counselling
• Food systems and policy solutions
• Sustainability
• Nutrition communication
• Monitoring and evaluation
Ask yourself?
1. What is already available?
2. What is relevant?
3. What is missing ?
4. What specific capacity building modality is suitable
for specific nutrition content?

6. Annexure: List of courses
Course title Offered By Content
The SickKids Public Health
Nutrition Course Centre for Global Child Health
Science of nutrition, undernutrition and obesity, solutions at the level
of individual health workers and policy makers at district level.
The SickKids Global Child Helath
course Centre for Global Child Health
Course content focuses on child health in the context of its linkages
with maternal health, global burden of disease, key health issues in
child survival, intervention priorities and barriers.
Nutrition and Healthy Living
Certificate- 6 courses eCornell
Course present in-depth contemporary scientific information on
nutrition and disease prevention, while building your awareness of
ways to preserve optimal lifetime health.
Nutrition Counseling- 4 courses eCornell Counselling skills
Global Public Health edX-SDG AcademyX
Our planet's demographic and epidemiological transitions; Current
and future trends in public health - including non-communicable
diseases
How our collective wellness has been impacted by globe-spanning
factors over the years.
Feeding a Hungry Planet:
Agriculture, Nutrition and
Sustainability edX-SDG AcademyX
learn about food security worldwide, the effects of malnutrition, how
we manage ecosystems that provide food resources and more.

7. Course title Offered By Content
Nutrition and Health:
Macronutrients and
Overnutrition
edX-Wageningen University &
Research
This course addresses the relationship between nutrition and human
health, with a focus on health problems related to overnutrition.
Multiple courses eNutrition Academy
Stable isotopes techniques in nutrition assessment; obesity and nutritional
interventions; lipids and cardiovascular health; understamding lab data;
assessment of dietary intake;
The ENACT Course
(Education for effective
nutrition in action) FAO
The ENACT course introduces participants to the principles and practice of
effective nutrition education.
Multiple courses FAO- E-learning Centre
Course topics: SDGs, Food and Nutrition Security Analysis, Food safety,
Nutrition and food systems, Sustatinable fisheries and aquaculture, Right
to food
Multiple courses -
Certificate programs Global health eLearning Center Diarrheal disease, Nutrition:an introduction, SBC for nutrition
Sustainable Food Systems
Certificate- 21 courses Harvard
Present and future challenges of food sustainability; how to balance
natural resource use and environmental protection with the needs of
production, economic viability, food security, and the social well-being of
all people; issues of food sustainability through the lens of agroecology,
biology, anthropology, environmental studies, economics, and nutrition.
Multiple courses IAPEN
Agriculture, Nutrition and
Health LHSTM
This module explores the multi-sectoral links between agriculture,
nutrition and health and consider how these interactions might be used to
promote pro-poor agricultural development, reduce food and nutrition
insecurity and improve the health of the poor.

8. Course title Offered By Content
Programming for Nutrition
Outcomes LHSTM
Problem of undernutrition, highlight its multi-sectoral causes and identify potential
programmatic solutions.
The Early Nutrition
eAcademy
Ludwig-Maximilians-
University
ENeA's aim is to provide e-learning modules on topics in the area of early nutrition by
incorporating the latest scientific findings from international research projects funded
by the European Commission.
Adolescent Nutrition and
Anaemia course
Nutritional
International
ePost Graduate program in
Public Health Nutrition PHFI
Dietary, epidemiological, public health, social and biological aspects of nutritional
science. Special topics include bio statistics, maternal and child nutrition, food policy,
nutrition program planning, monitoring and evaluation and nutritional epidemiology.
Stanford Introduction to
Food and Health Stanford
By the end of this course, learners should have the tools they need to distinguish
between foods that will support their health and those that threaten it. In addition, we
will present a compelling rationale for a return to simple home cooking, an integral part
of our efforts to live longer, healthier lives.
Food Nutrition for Healthy
Living Swayam Food, Nutrition, Health, Fitness and Hygiene and their interrelationships.
Sustainable Agriculture and
Food Systems Tufts
broad impacts of the food system in order to create effective policy and market
solutions.
Global Nutrition
Programming Tufts
Malnutrition prevention and response, underlying causes of malnutrition, monitoring
and evaluation.
Nutrition for Industry
Professionals and
Entrepreneurs Tufts
Insight into the nutrition-related product development process – from
generating ideas to messaging to marketing.
Nutrition Science for
Health Professionals Tufts
knowledge about nutrition science and skills in translating this knowledge
into plans for disease prevention and treatment.

9. Course title Offered By Content
Developing Healthy
Communities Tufts
Scientific knowledge, as well as research supported methods, interventions,
approaches and programs proven to help curb the prevalence of lifestyle-
related health problems in our communities, towns and individual lives.
Nutrition Science for
Communications
Professionals Tufts
concepts and language of nutrition science, the skills required to interpret
nutrition-related research studies for consumers, and the ability to apply this
knowledge to help inform and guide marketing efforts.
FOOD CHOICE AND
BEHAVIOUR
University of
Aberdeen
how our current obesogenic environment contributes to the psychology of
eating behaviours.
Malnutrition eLearning
University of
Southampton Core concepts of malnutrition, identification, application and management.
MOOCs | online courses
(Multiple)
Wageningen
University &
Research
Nutrition and disease, Nutrition and health (microbiome/macronutrient and
overnutrition), micronutrients and malnutrition