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Table 1 List of topics covered during the Bangalore Boston Nutrition Collaborative short course in Nutrition Research Methodology (2010–2012)

From: Innovations in nutrition education and global health: the Bangalore Boston nutrition collaborative

Substantive

Practical

Nutritional physiology

Nutritional assessment

Nutritional Biochemistry

Extracting evidence from internet

Molecular nutrition

Body composition

Nutrition and global health

Laboratory methods in nutrition research

Ethics in nutrition and global health

Novel diagnostics

Health policy and nutrition

Biostatistics

Nutrition and food security in emergencies

Survey design & data collection

Waterborne diseases and public health

Data analysis

Childhood obesity and adult outcomes

Nutrition and perinatal health

Methods

Case studies/journal club

Intervention study design

Nutrition and infection

Epidemiological research methods

Estimation of amino acid requirements

Nutritional epidemiology and surveillance

Ethics of nutritional interventions

Infectious disease epidemiology

Clinical nutrition

Obesity and chronic disease epidemiology

Research in nutrition and perinatal health

Scientific manuscript development

Nutrition in crisis zones

Nutritional assessment

Nutrition and epidemiologic transitions

Micronutrients and stable isotopes

Nutrition in emergencies

Statistical techniques for nutritional studies

Programmatic research in nutrition and perinatal health

Nutrigenetics and vitamin A

Physical activity interventions

Practical aspects of running a clinical trial