Public Health Nutrition: Translating Research into Practice

Authors

Casey Coombs, Utah State UniversityFollow
Mateja R. Savoie-Roskos, Utah State UniversityFollow
Nurgul Fitzgerald, The State University of New Jersey
Tovah Wolf, Iowa State University

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volume

51

Issue

2

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

2-6-2019

First Page

1

Last Page

2

Abstract

Public health nutrition is a unique, multifaceted discipline that includes a wide range of experts in the research, policy, and programming sectors.¹ A goal of the SNEB Public Health Nutrition Division is to help translate public health nutrition research into practice and policies. This translation process is essential to ensure practitioners have the tools to implement effective, evidence-based interventions that have demonstrated improvements in nutrition-related behaviors and health outcomes of the target audiences.^{2, 3} Furthermore, collaboration between researchers and practitioners is necessary to ensure that researchers are testing interventions that can feasibly be implemented in public health settings.³

Recommended Citation

Coombs, Casey, Savoie-Roskos, Mateja R., Fitzgerald, Nurgul, and Wolf, Tovah. "Public Health Nutrition: Translating Research into Practice." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, vol. 51, no. 2, 2019, pp. 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2018.12.003