Nutritional Epidemiology in Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in nutritional epidemiology highlight the integration of dietary, metabolic, and environmental perspectives to address complex public health challenges. Beyond chronic disease prevention, emerging research emphasizes the role of nutrition in healthy aging, frailty prevention, and resilience against infectious diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical interaction between nutritional status, immune function, and infection outcomes, particularly among older adults. Current priorities include refining dietary pattern analysis, developing tools for nutritional risk screening and diagnosis, and incorporating sustainability into public health nutrition strategies. Methodological innovations—such as digital dietary assessment, multi-omics profiling, and life-course approaches—enable a deeper understanding of how nutrition influences disease susceptibility and recovery. This Special Issue invites contributions that advance methodological rigor, elucidate interrelations among many diseases and conditions, and translate epidemiological findings into interventions and policies promoting global health, longevity, and resilience.

Dr. Kei Nakajima
Guest Editor

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