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The course aims to provide an overview of nutrition during humanitarian emergencies. It also focuses on Nutrition strategies, treatments, and follow-up in disasters or crisis management. This will provide an understanding of; the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, morbidity, and mortality); and also, the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course will also develop a broader range of management skills needed in relation to humanitarian response initiatives. It also emphasizes the importance of nutrition in disaster, Energy and protein deficiency in disaster, Micronutrient deficiency in disaster, Nutrient enrichment in disaster, Risk groups in the society in disaster, Nutrition in infants and children in disasters, Nutrition in pregnancy in disasters, Nutrition in elderly in disasters, Food safety in disaster, Infection diseases in disaster, 'Linking Emergency aid with Food Security, 'Importance of Culturally-competent food aid in a disaster, 'Role of stakeholders in Emergency preparedness and response, 'Humanitarian response and food assistance in conflict and Disaster in different regions of world. |
- Teacher: Pushpa DHAMI