FHI 360 Center for Nutrition Homepage

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Welcome!

The FHI 360 Center for Nutrition is a resource for technical expertise, program design and management, and information services. The Center builds upon the 45-year history of FHI 360, an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems. FHI 360 believes that nutrition is an essential component of human and national development. FHI 360 supports nutrition activities, ranging from comprehensive programs to short-term technical assistance, product research and marketing, and evaluation in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, as well as the United States.

Highlights

FANTA-2 has designed the latest USAID online learning course on Nutrition (An Introduction). The course is available on USAID's Global Health eLearning Center portal. The course discusses the basic concepts of good nutrition and common nutritional deficiencies, the magnitude of malnutrition in different populations, vulnerable groups and the causes of undernutrition, and key indicators and ways of measuring them. It also outlines the major population-based interventions to improve nutritional status.

One-time registration at www.globalhealthlearning.org. provides free access to this and 49 other courses that cover a variety of global health topics. The course can be taken in about two hours. The reader can return to the course over a period of time.

GHeL courses are intended primarily for USAID mission staff and staff at Cooperating Agencies (CAs—other organizations that work closely with USAID) around the world. The GHeL platform is accessible using a low-bandwidth Internet connection.

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The Center

The FHI 360 Center for Nutrition is dedicated to bringing about positive changes in the actions of individuals, communities, and institutions that will improve the health and well-being of nutritionally vulnerable populations around the world. The Center works at multiple levels with regional institutions, government agencies, the private sector, and community-based organizations.

Nutrition Areas

The Center focuses on:
» Infant and young child
    feeding
» Infant feeding in the
   context of HIV/AIDS
» Adolescent and women's
    nutrition
» Micronutrients and
    fortification
» Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
» Nutrition in emergencies
» Nutrition-related chronic
    disease
» Nutrition and food security
    links

Programs

FHI 360's Global Health, Population & Nutrition Center currently manages more than 15 large-scale international nutrition-related programs. FHI 360 also manages 8 nutrition-related programs in the U.S.

Results

FHI 360 nutrition projects aim to achieve measurable changes in specific behaviors at multiple levels—among family members, health providers, and policy makers.