CITATION: Delisle, H. et al. 2017. Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in low-resource countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95:385-388. doi:10.2471/BLT.16.174912The original publication is available at http://www.who.int/bulletin/en/INTRODUCTION: Neglected for several decades, nutrition
is now firmly on the development agenda. Important landmarks are the
initiation of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement in 2010; the adoption by
the World Health Assembly of the Comprehensive Implementation Plan
for Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition in 2014; and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases for 2013–2020. Public health nutrition has to meet multiple new challenges, including the shift from the millennium development goals to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), together with growing issues such as climate change, globalization, urbanization, socioeconomic disparities, migration and wars.Publisher's versio
