Past Experiences and Future Prospects of Nutrition Higher Education Collaboration in Asia: A case of Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Chulalongkorn University

Globalization is one of the factors impacting on food consumption and eating behavior leading to unhealthy patterns of nutrition and high risk of NCD development. Today Asian region is experiencing significant changes in social structures and also disappearing of local culture and food tradition. Nu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of nutrition and metabolism 2019-01, Vol.75, p.40
1. Verfasser: Ariyapitipun, Tipayanate
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Zusammenfassung:Globalization is one of the factors impacting on food consumption and eating behavior leading to unhealthy patterns of nutrition and high risk of NCD development. Today Asian region is experiencing significant changes in social structures and also disappearing of local culture and food tradition. Nutrition Higher education (HE) in Asia playing an important role on producing nutritionists, dietitians, and also researchers having high ability to harmonize the globalization and nutrition self-awareness through nutrition education and behavior modification. Therefore HE should take benefits from the positive impacts of Asianization in aspects of the knowledge related to tradition food, culture, and lifestyle, and also innovation to strengthen the knowledge in Asian region and simultaneously resist the negative impact of globalization on nutrition problems. The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Chulalongkorn Universitye stablished in 2011 with the primary aim on providing professional international quality Dietitian-Nutritionists to Thai society. Since 2013, the department have established collaborations and networks with many universities in Asia through the student exchange program and research networks supported by university funding. There were thrity-two of undergraduate students having a chance to exchange knowledge and culture through the student exchange program in three universities, including Department of Community Nutrition at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), School of Biological Sciences at University of Hong Kong, and College of Medicine and Department of Nutrition at Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan. For the inbound exchange student, thirteen undergraduate students from University of Health Sciences in Lao P.D.R. and eighteen graduate student and two undergraduate students from IPB earning the CU scholarship for ASEAN countries enrolled in a 1-semester class. This inbound and outbound student exchange program with IPB will keep on in the future. Moreover, the Department has connection with the Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, NUS for research network and research student exchange. Also students and faculties in the department exchanged knowledge with invited speakers from many countries in Asia and USA. In the future the Department will extend the scopes of collaborations to exchange of lecturers and visiting professors and international workshop arrangement linking to research networks in the long run.
ISSN:0250-6807
1421-9697
DOI:10.1159/000501751