Defining Nutrition Informatics

Nutrition Informatics is an effective retrieval, organization, storage, and optimum use of information, data, and knowledge for food- and nutrition-related problem solving and decision-making. Nutrition informatics is the management of the information dietetics professionals need to practice successfully while tailoring recommendations to meet each patient’s specific needs.

Why the need?

  • Nutrition informatics describes intersection of nutrition, information, and technology, and it underlies all areas of dietetics practice.
  • Growing opportunity to facilitate technology-enabled behavioral change interventions to support NI research and practice.
  • Management and interpretation of data could help clarify the relationships and interrelationships of diet and disease at international, national and regional levels.
  • Need to prepare a NI workforce that could provide valuable tools to address the double burden of nutrition.
  • The program combines theoretical aspect with presentation of practical solutions in real world settings.

Skills Student Acquire

  • Use data for problem solving and improving practice outcomes.
  • Use of systems for the effective collection, organization, and interpretation of data.
  • Use of clinical information systems to find information related to patient care.
  • Evaluation of quality of health information over the internet.
  • Design and develop innovative solutions to address issues related to nutrition.
  • Competency in the analysis, management, and evaluation of technology and applications.
  • Examination of role of data, policy, and technology enabled behavioral change interventions to support nutritional informatics research and practice.
  • Guiding consumers to apply the information available to them through informatics systems.

Program Benefits

  • Become a member and participate in nutrition informatics research team.
  • Opportunity to develop technology based interventions to address problems related to nutrition.
  • Opportunity to work in technological settings and communicate data and information effectively.
  • Show nutrition informatics knowledge to better qualify for higher education.
  • Integrate knowledge of nutrition informatics into nutritional care to enhances the quality of nutrition care.
  • Improve the efficiency and quality of work with enhanced digital literacy.

Program Features

  • Synchronous and Asynchronous learning
  • Weekly interactive lectures
  • Weekly discussions
  • Problem solving exercises
  • Case studies
  • Quizzes
  • Research Seminar
  • Experiential learning
  • Research advisor assigned
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Program Duration 4 Months
For Indian National Students INR 12,000

Learning objectives

  • Organize and manage health information data.
  • Maintain quality, accuracy and accessibility of data.
  • Ensure the security of electronic and paper filing systems.
  • Use data collected to help create dietary plans for patients.
  • Apply human centered approach to design culturally and contextually relevant nutrition apps supporting improvement of population health outcomes.
  • Evaluate nutrition informatics interventions across diverse disease topics, diverse populations across various settings.

Course Structure

  • Program Duration – 16 weeks
  • Total teaching hours – 240 hours
  • Online live lectures – 16 hours
  • Discussion forum / mentoring – 32 hours
  • E-tutorial – 40 hours
  • E-content – 40 hours
  • Self-study hours – 40 hours
  • Total number of credits – 8 credits