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Nutrition in Adolescent Growth and Development

Publication Date: 2 March 2023

Continuing Education Units: Nurse Contact: 1.0; Dietitian CPEU: 1.0

Course Description:

In this course, Kate A. Ward, PhD will review the Lancet series on adolescence, focusing on the first paper, ‘Nutrition and Adolescence’; describe the importance of nutrition on growth and its impact on short and long-term health; and identify and describe research gaps regarding nutrition and adolescence.

Course Objectives:

• Review the Lancet series on adolescence, focusing on the first paper, ‘Nutrition and Adolescence’.

• Describe the importance of nutrition on growth and its impact on short and long-term health.

• Identify and describe research gaps regarding nutrition and adolescence.

CDR Level: 2
Performance Indicators: 4.2.6, 8.1.2, 8.1.5
Run Time: 29

Course Instructor Bio(s)

Kate A. Ward, PhD

Professor, Global Musculoskeletal Health

MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, Human Development and Health

University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

SAMRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit

School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

Kate Ward is an Associate Professor at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton, UK. She is also a principal research fellow in the Global Nutrition Research Group in Southampton and an honorary senior scientist at the MRC Nutrition and Bone Health Group, Cambridge, UK. A biologist by training, Dr Ward has been a researcher in translational/clinical bone physiology since 1993.

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