Research goals:
Conduct research projects in various fields including:
• Nutritional assessment
• The role of nutrition in health and disease
• How to eradicate malnutrition in the community
• Improving public awareness about healthy eating behaviors
• Nutrients deficiencies
• Proper methods of food consumption
• Improving public health through increase and development of nutritional knowledge at a national level
Educational levels:
• MSc in Nutritional Sciences
• MSc in Health Sciences in Nutrition
• PhD in Nutritional Sciences
Educational activities:
• Teaching all nutrition courses to MSc and PhD students in Nutrition
• Teaching nutrition and food hygiene courses to other majors in various schools including Public health, Nursing and Midwifery, Medicine, …
Research priorities:
1. Clinical Nutrition:
• Studying the role of nutrients (micronutrients and macronutrients) in health and disease
• Studying the role of nutritional supplements in health and disease
• Studying the role of antioxidants in prevention of metabolic disease
• Studying nutrients interactions
2. Community Nutrition:
• Studying the effect of nutrition education on dietary behaviors modifications
• Nutritional epidemiology, marginal micronutrient deficiency, chronic effect of malnutrition
3. Cellular and Molecular Nutrition:
• Studying the interaction between gene, food, chronic and metabolic disease
• Nutrition and immunity