Emory Nutrition & Health Sciences Program

NHS SEMINAR

Thursday, Feb 26th 2009

Beth Christen Imhoff-Kunsch presents her dissertation, "The effect of docosahexanoic acid supplementation in pregnancy on breast milk fatty acid composition and morbidity and immune function in Mexican infants: a double blind randomized controlled trial."

9:00am-10:00am GCR 721/729

RECENT STUDENT PUBLICATION

Nguyen P, Grajeda R, Molnar P, Marcinkevage J, Flores R, Martorell R. Weekly may be as efficacious as daily folic acid supplementation in improving folate status and lowering serum homocysteine concentrations in Guatemalan Women. Journal of Nutrition 138: 1491-1498, 2008.

RECRUITMENT 2009

The application deadline is January 3, 2009 for fall admission.
Apply here.

Recruitment visits are February 5-7, 2009.

Emory�s Program in Nutrition and Health Sciences [NHS] offers a Ph.D. degree through the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences [GDBBS] within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences [GSAS].

Our students obtain the skills necessary to investigate relationships between human nutrition and health and contribute to improving nutrition worldwide. The NHS faculty were recently ranked 4th in the US in terms of research productivity. Core strengths in metabolomics and predictive medicine, clinical nutrition, population-based intervention trials and epidemiology, and public nutrition programs ensure a quality training, whatever aspect of human nutrition inspires you.

For more information, please explore our site. We look forward to hearing from you.

Usha Ramakrishnan, PhD
Director, NHS Program

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