Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HFN 505 - Current Topics: Maternal and Child Nutrition


This online course examines current trends in research on nutrition topics related to maternal and child health with a focus on evidence-based recommendations. Topics include fertility, intrauterine influences on development, maternal nutrition and infant feeding, breastfeeding, supplementation, asthma and allergic disease, nutrition and neurological development, gut microbiota in early life, links between early life and adult disease and environmental influences on early childhood feeding challenges.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to program codes HFNMZ, HFPMS or HFPZM or HFN 507 .

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)