Free online courses

  • Food and Nutrition Policy focuses on ways policy directly and indirectly affects nutrition. 
  • Hunger in the World of Plenty is a review of the world hunger situation and how it is measured, including its distribution and number of people affected, as well as the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation and related geopolitical issues affecting the world food systems including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
  • International Nutrition is an examination of approaches that seek to improve nutritional status and focuses on ways to address factors that drive malnutrition.
  • Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues is a review of the world hunger situation and how it is measured, including its distribution and number of people affected, as well as the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation and related geopolitical issues affecting the world food systems including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
  • Principles of Human Nutrition examines nutrition, from its physiological roles in development and disease to its treatment at the policy level.
  • Stanford Introduction to Food and Health reviews practical issues related to food and health and stresses the importance of positive food choices and home cooking.
  • The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals is a focus on the fundamentals of water and its relationship to human health. 
  • The Biology of Water and Health – Sustainable Interventions provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the place of water in health policy and engineering by delving into the complex social, economic, political and scientific factors that influence how we approach these critical health and water related challenges.
  • The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food provides a look at psychological issues of food and health promotion as it is compounded by politics and biology.