Many Friedman students and alumni seek to address the most pressing public health and nutrition challenges facing our communities and people around the globe. This could be through direct patient care, whether in clinical or community nutrition settings, creating outreach and education programs, or translating science for public consumption. Sample job titles include Nutrition Communication Specialist, Wellness Director, and Clinical Nutritionist, just to name a few.
What might a good career decision process look like? According to the career coaches at 80,000 hours, a common approach is to make a pros and cons list, but they assert that we can do a lot better. “Pro and …
By Sarah Stockwell, MA
Sarah Stockwell, MAAssociate Director of Career Services
Precision nutrition finds the most suitable diet for individual people based on one’s DNA, microbiomes, and metabolic reactions. (1) In the future, with the help of precision nutrition, scientists may be able to find more effective …
Sustainability is defined as a future-minded way of production. While setting an environmental sustaining capacity is a baseline, nutrition sustainability aims to search for the food system driving nodes and find more efficient solutions in the …
Welcome to our featured employer series! We will feature different companies/organizations in the food, nutrition, and public health fields.
What does Ocean Spray do?
Started by three cranberry growers in Massachusetts, Ocean Spray is a cooperative of cranberries and grapefruit …
Nutrition Security means people have equal access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food that enables them to live a healthy life. Nutrition security is a concept built on food security, which emphasizes that people have access …
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Core Competencies
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