Global Food Systems and Nutrition Policy and Practice

The grand challenges of today – climate change, hunger, malnutrition and poverty alleviation, among others – will require building scientific and leadership capacities of the next generation of practitioners to tackle the multi-sectoral nature of these problems. With only six years to go to the completion of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030, it is imperative that a deliberate effort is made across Harvard University to support students in expediting progress on these societal objectives. To operationalize this vision, a new course on ‘Global Food Systems and Nutrition Policy: science and leadership’ is envisioned. The course will be offered by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) during the January term over the course of one week. It will be a half a semester course worth 2.5 credits at HSPH. The course will be open to all graduate students across various schools at Harvard, namely the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), the Harvard Business School (HBS), the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard Law School, as well as to students from the Harvard College.