Prospective Students

Welcome! We invite you to get to know the Department of Nutrition by exploring our website. If you have any questions about our degree program offerings, please contact nutritionprograms@hsph.harvard.edu.

Current Degree Programs Offered

MPH

Master of Public Health in Nutrition (65-credit program)

Acquire skills in nutrition communication and practice along with foundational knowledge in nutritional science, epidemiology, and public health.
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PhD in Population Health Sciences

Gain broad, interdisciplinary knowledge in quantitative and qualitative methods of enquiry for understanding the health of populations, and developmental approaches to population health science. Within the field of Nutrition, you can choose either Public Health Nutrition or Nutritional Epidemiology for your “Area of Specialization.”
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PhD in Biological Sciences of Public Health

Obtain broad interdisciplinary knowledge of both mechanistic and quantitative approaches to biomedical research in key areas, including: metabolic dysregulation in complex diseases (obesity, diabetes, cancer), gene-environment interactions (inflammation, stress responses, epigenetics), or nutritional biochemistry (nutrient sensing, physiology, cardiovascular disease).
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