Environmental Nutrition: A New Frontier for Public Health

Space technology: a new frontier for public health.

When former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan was seen leaving a conference in Geneva in November 2005 clutching maps of the south Asia earthquake disaster, it was evidence that satellites – as a key weapon in humanitarian emergencies – had arrived. In the hours and days after the October 8 quake struck killing more than 73 000 people and injuring some 150 000, experts from France, Germany, the U...

Integrating nutrition and immunology: a new frontier.

Nutrition is critical to immune defence and parasite resistance, which not only affects individual organisms, but also has profound ecological and evolutionary consequences. Nutrition and immunity are complex traits that interact via multiple direct and indirect pathways, including the direct effects of nutrition on host immunity but also indirect effects mediated by the host's microbiota and p...

Obesity--the new frontier of public health law.

Professing public health nutrition.

Clarity of purpose is essential for a discipline and its profession: to advocate for public and political support; to attract and socialise students and novices. Three seminal contributions to this issue by Roger Hughes will help the international community of public health nutrition to benchmark its development as a subject and profession, related to and yet distinct from public health and hea...

Policy and environmental change: new directions for public health.

Solving major, persistent public health problems requires new policies and more aggressive, sweeping interventions that affect large populations. We need well-conceived health policies and effective interventions for environmental change, but are we likely to get them? To find out, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated ...