News & Events

This section gives you an overview of our planned and ongoing events within Global Nutrition and Health

The Metropolitan University College's bachelor programme in Global Nutrition and Health (GNH) has taken another few steps up the ladder of international acclaim: we have recently had an article published in the highly esteemed journal Public Service Review: European Science and Technology.

The students from the Metropolitan University College's international bachelor programme, Global Nutrition and Health, recently took an exam in the 'real world'. The course was Fitness Management, and the test was to organize a dodgeball tournament with 90 participants. The alternative form of examination was a huge success, according to both teachers and students.

Dr Michael Heasman, lecturer in food policy in the subject area Public Health Nutrition and Food Policy, attended the High Level Conference on Monitoring and Evaluation of EU and Member States’ strategies on nutrition, overweight and obesity held in Brussels, December 8th and 9th on behalf of GNH in its role as a WHO Collaborating Centre. Read more here.

Sign of Lifeis an international campaign focusing on the health of young African women 2010-2013. Martha Krogh Topperzer, adjunct at PH Metropol, Bachelor of Global Nutrition and Health recently presented her personal experience from Niger, Ethiopia and Uganda to Midwife students at campaign launch. Read more here.

GNH 7th semester students present at OECD meeting on Self-Regulation in Paris The aim was to discuss a draft paper on self-regulation. Read more here.

Benjamin Gilbert-Jespersen, Nutritional Expert and lecturer at Global Nutrition and Health, evaluates the Raw Food concept in the evening news on TV2 at 7:00 p.m. 27th of October.

Ellen Girerd-Barclay, Ph.D and asst. professor at Bachelor’s Degree Program in Global Nutrition and Health is in Porto these days attending the 2nd World Congress of Public Health Nutrition

Lecturer Aileen Robertson, Ph.D and Public Health Nutritionist, is attending BBC TV's World Debate programme

*go healthy* is the new activity club at Metropolitan University College, Nutrition and Health Educations. It is founded by three active people from the education. The concept is to interact, compete and have fun with fellow students while enjoying different kinds of physical activity! Trainers for every activity will be provided and all activities are free of charge! Check out more information at the facebook site

Aileen Robertson, Ph.D and Public Health Nutritionist, will be attending the 6th Global Meeting of the Women´s Forum (Deauville, France) as a discussion leader. View the programme

Aileen Robertson, Ph.D and Public Health Nutritionist, is co-author on the poster: "THE EURO-PREVOB POLICY ANALYSIS TOOL FOR OBESITY PREVENTION: PILOT TESTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA", which has been accepted to the 2nd Croatian Congress of Preventive medicine, Zagreb 13-16 October, 2010 View the poster