Master in Nutrition Science

The Graduate Program in Nutrition Sciences (PPGCN) aims to train masters and researchers with skills to:

Identify and develop technical and scientific solutions to the most relevant food and nutritional problems, in order to propose actions for the promotion, maintenance, and recovery of health at the individual and collective levels, as well as to evaluate and propose public policies in the area.

Propose and justify the use of nutritional therapeutic approaches based on mechanistic knowledge associated with biochemistry, immunology, and physiology involved in homeostatic and/or pathological conditions.

Train nutritionists, other health professionals, and related areas in the methodology of research and higher education in the field of Nutrition Sciences, in order to acquire competencies and skills in teaching and in the planning, implementation, and dissemination of relevant research in the field of Nutrition. Nutrition.

The PPGCN aims to train critical and ethical health professionals, endowed with a solid scientific and humanistic base and committed to transformative interventions in society; with competencies and skills for teaching in undergraduate and graduate courses, for academic extension, for the planning, implementation, and dissemination of relevant research, in addition to working on technological development and innovations in Nutrition Sciences.