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Breastfeeding and Adequate Substitutes
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
Ensuring adequate nutrition is essential for infants to reach their full potential, as early-life nutritional imbalances and deficiencies may result in detrimental and often irreversible adverse health consequences. "Breastfeeding and Adequate Substitutes" focuses...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) | Taught by Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko, Dr. Shweta Feher
CARE: Nutrition in Ageing
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
What are the nutritional needs of older people? What happens when older people become malnourished? What does a healthy diet look like? As a care provider for people in their later years, these and similar questions will be familiar to you. Our bodies begin to...
Offered through edX | and created by ImperialX, Imperial College London | Taught by Gary Frost, Karen Abbott, Caroline Manus
Nutrition and Health: Food Risks
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Everyday reports of food scandals and recalls are published. One day it’s scary bacteria in meat, and another day it’s dangerous pesticides in fruits. According to some, meat needs to be cooked well to prevent food-borne illness while others warn not to heat food...
Offered through edX | and created by Wageningen University & Research | Taught by Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens, Marcel H. Zwietering, Martine Reij and others
Nutrition and Health Part 3: Food Safety
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Everyday reports of food scandals and recalls are published. One day it’s scary bacteria in meat, and another day it’s dangerous pesticides in fruits. According to some, meat needs to be cooked well to prevent food-borne illness while others warn not to heat food...
Offered through edX | and created by Wageningen University & Research | Taught by Ivonne M.C.M. Rietjens, Marcel H. Zwietering, Martine Reij and others
Biohacking Your Brain's Health
Rated 4.5★ stars based on | 74 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 15 hours estimated
With deteriorating health, particularly brain health, occurring at a global level, this course introduces you to methods for maximizing your brain's fitness through nutrition, exercise, meditation, and sleep. We'll debunk popular myths about prescribed practices...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Emory University | Taught by Karima Benameur, MD
Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability
. Course Length: 35 hours estimated
Agriculture is more than waving fields of wheat; our ability to grow food from existing natural resources –and without decimating those resources –is key to sustainably feeding the world. In this course, learn about food security worldwide, the effects of...
Offered through edX | and created by SDGAcademyX, SDG Academy | Taught by Achim Dobermann, Ken Giller, Jessica Fanzo and others
Readings in Global Health (2017)
Rated 5.0★ stars based on | 2 ratings · . Cost $99 · . Course Length: 60 hours estimated
How do health professionals predict global patterns of disease? In the case of an epidemic, disaster, or armed conflict, how do experts determine what health care interventions to use? Is it possible to eradicate diseases like guinea worm and polio? How can health...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by David J. Hunter
Science of Diet and Exercise
A Specialization from Coursera. Contains 3 courses · . Course Total length: 9 hours estimated
Changing your health and getting to where you want to be required not only an effective exercise program but a nutrition program that will complement your goals. It is through the combination of diet and exercise that you can maximize your efforts and become the...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Academy of Sports Medicine | Taught by NASM Faculty
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
Rated 4.0★ stars based on | 1 ratings · . Cost $99 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
Lifestyle factors including poor nutrition and physical inactivity are critical determinants of health, causing a pandemic of chronic diseases, premature death and unsustainable healthcare costs. Currently, 50 percent of Americans live with one or more chronic...
Offered through edX | and created by DoaneX, Doane University | Taught by Amanda McKinney, Amanda McKinney, MD, FACLM
Diabetes – the Essential Facts
Rated 4.8★ stars based on | 112 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
Across the world more than 420 million people are living with diabetes. Two thirds of these have not yet been diagnosed. When discovered late or managed incorrectly, diabetes can damage your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves, leading to disability...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Copenhagen | Taught by Nicolai Jacob Wewer Albrechtsen, Signe Sørensen Torekov, Jens Juul Holst
Food Sustainability, Mindful Eating, and Healthy Cooking
A Specialization from Coursera. Contains 3 courses · . Course Total length: 59 hours estimated
This specialization is intended for anyone seeking to improve their health, protect our planet and build a stronger, more positive relationship with food. The courses aim to improve knowledge about the relationships between our health, our food, how our food is...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Stanford University | Taught by Maya Adam, MD
Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy
Rated 4.7★ stars based on | 220 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy offers an overview of the latest research findings and international recommendations on a variety of nutrition-related aspects and outcomes of pregnancy. Ensuring a healthy nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) | Taught by Berthold Koletzko, Prof. Dr. Berthold Koletzko
Nutrition Hot Topics and Controversies
Nutrition Education for the ConsumerCost $49 · . Course Length: 3 hours estimated
Within the ever-changing nutrition landscape, it becomes difficult to understand current trending topics. Without a doubt, your friends and neighbors will have questions regarding these nutrition hot topics. Most people want to know what to believe or discard from...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Academy of Sports Medicine | Taught by NASM Faculty
Food for Thought
Rated 4.9★ stars based on | 22 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 50 hours estimated
Eating well and understanding the nuances of food has become a complicated and often confusing experience. Virtually every day brings news about some “miracle food” that we should be consuming or some "poison" we should be avoiding. One day it's tomatoes to...
Offered through edX | and created by McGillX, McGill | Taught by Ariel Fenster, David N. Harpp, Joe Schwarcz and others
Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Rated 4.6★ stars based on | 39 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
The Center for Humanitarian Emergencies is a partnership between CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch and the Rollins School of Public Health that drives global collaboration, research and evidence based training to improve the lives and well-being of...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Emory University | Taught by Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH, Cyrus Shahpar
The Health Effects of Climate Change
Cost $229 · . Course Length: 35 hours estimated
Our world's climate is changing. Of the top twenty hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred in the last two decades. This warming has already had a profound effect. Many feel powerless in the face of this challenge, but you can make a difference. By...
Offered through edX | and created by HarvardX, Harvard University | Taught by Aaron Bernstein, Ashish Jha
PH556X: Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results
Cost $99 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Developed through a collaboration between HarvardX and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, PH 556x: Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A roadmap for getting results will provide learners with the valuable skills and simple, well-tested tools they...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Don Goldmann, Dave Williams, Don Berwick
Nutrition and Health: Human Microbiome
Cost $169 · . Course Length: 30 hours estimated
Your body is not only made up of human cells, but also by trillions of bacteria, fungi and viruses. Together they make up the human microbiome and have a tremendous impact on your health. For example, what you eat and drink impacts the gut microbes of the human...
Offered through edX | and created by Wageningen University & Research, WageningenX | Taught by Clara Belzer
The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health
Rated 4.7★ stars based on | 28 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 8 hours estimated
The People, Power, and Pride of Public Health provides an engaging overview of the incredible accomplishments and promise of the public health field. The first module includes interviews with legendary public health figures whose work led to millions of lives...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Johns Hopkins University | Taught by Beth A. Resnick, MPH, Joshua Sharfstein, MD
Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies
. Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies aims to engage students in an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the nature of complex health problems throughout the world, with an illustrative focus on South Asia. Students will become acquainted...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Tarun Khanna, Sue J. Goldie