Nutrition and Health Sciences (GDBBS)

Emory’s strongly interdisciplinary doctoral program in Nutrition and Health Sciences provides the expertise and skills necessary for original research into the relationship between nutrition and human health.

Nutritional science is an increasingly prominent aspect of biomedical science as well as public health programs and policies. Nutrition focuses on foods and nutrients — the composition of foods, the determinants and patterns of food consumption, the relation of foods consumed to physiological needs, and the fate of the nutrients in biochemical processes. Nutritional science investigates these phenomena on many levels, ranging from biochemical processes on the molecular level to population- level determinants of nutrition in the context of social environments.

Nutrition is the quintessential translational science in which discovery, development, and delivery intersect. Advances in the understanding of biochemical processes change the management of clinical disease and public health programs; clinical obse vations drive future research into the mechanisms of pathophysiology and disease progression; and the need for effective public health programs leads to research on behavior modification and the social processes that influence dietary habits.

Nutrition and Health Sciences (NHS) is one of eight interdisciplinary PhD programs in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS).