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PHN course helped in many ways as addition to my CV. Understood how effective a medium an online mode of learning could be. Skills learnt are calculating calorie requirement and menu planning for individual to help reducing and maintaining weight within desired level. Result based Project management (RBM) techniques to design and monitoring the progress of projects against different input, process, output, outcome and impact indicators were also useful.

A wonderfully structured program to build understanding in the field of public health nutrition from scratch basics to advanced skills. I got imbibed as we went along to the second semester which was more applicative and built our capacity as public health managers. Do come with more courses on applicative aspects of public health.

The course has helped me in broadening and sharpening my technical knowledge on overall health and nutrition topic. For long time, I was looking for such course because I had not attended formal course on health and nutrition although I have a long experience of working in the field of nutrition with several short training course on piecemeal basis. The PHN course therefore built a strong bridging between my area of work and authentic knowledge and skills. The course has increased my confidence level significantly. Skills that I learned in relation to designing and implementing nutrition interventions, monitoring and evaluation, behavior change communication were most useful in my job.

As I am working in Nutrition Research Centre and have to carry out some research related projects related to Nutrition, the overall course is very useful. If I examine in module wise manner Research Methods and Applied Biostatistics are very useful to formulate the research projects and also for the result analysis. To carry out the community nutrition programs, the community nutrition module is good. Modules Food Safety in Practices and Planning & Management of Nutrition programs will help to take more projects in that field. Assignments were somewhat difficult. Interactive sessions and special sessions were very effective. As a whole, the overall course is effective.

This program has strengthened my technical abilities and public health knowledge. I had an excellent experience, thank you.

Maternal and Child Nutrition Module was most useful when I started the course I was working in IYCN project financed by USAID and implemented by CARE Mozambique. During the course, I benefited a lot with knowledge gained in this module. I performed a lot of training material in MCH with knowledge gained. It helped me also to be updated in many nutrition issues. Thank you PHFI. I am implementing standard for child nutrition in our Project for Ministry of Health.

This course helped me in my career to explore more about public health nutrition. I learnt a lot about public health nutrition and it helped me a lot in my PhD study.

It was really very interesting and knowledge gaining course. It really helps to understand different health policies and schemes related to public health. The knowledge gained by this course benefits to work on public health organizations. The content of this course is very much research oriented with real life schemes/examples which help to understand it completely. The assignments of the course are more practical based which needs to perform in local society in place of just reading from the book or website. These practical assignments provide opportunity to face the ground level reality and understand the challenges involved in public health domain.

I wanted to work in health sector so PHN course is helping me in this regards. Skills learned are analysis, food chart, finding nutritive value in local market and preparing the chart.

I have enjoyed and learned a lot from this course. I am trying to implement the course learning in my present job and hope, it is useful in future too. I felt that there should be more quality material available hence if you do not have chance to attend the online discussion, student can refer material. The assignment should be more focused to real-life practical issue, there were few, but this type of course should have practical level assignment hence student can learn and understand how to use the learning in real life.