Nutrition and Public Health
A section of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Section Information
The Nutrition and Public Health section of Nutrients aims to publish high-level, peer-reviewed research on nutrition and food approaches to address diet-related public health issues. This could include multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and modeling the causes of these issues, efforts to promote nutritional well-being and prevent diet-related diseases and conditions, community-based interventions, community-based participatory research, and public policy. We welcome novel, feasible, and practical food and nutrition approaches that address health disparities, leverage technology, as well as multi-level interventions that follow the socio-ecological model. Consistent with the journal Nutrients, we welcome original research articles, reviews, and commentaries. This section should be of interest to public health specialists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, registered dietitians, researchers, policy makers, and advocates.
- Assessment of communities and populations
- Public health
- Surveillance
- Prevention
- Health promotion
- Multi-level interventions
- Socio-ecological framework
- Community-based participatory research
- Theory-based interventions
- Community nutrition
- Community and population health goals
- Food safety
- Food fortification
- Food supply and sustainability
- Nutrition assistance programs
- Hunger and food security
- Humanitarian efforts
- Community-based interventions
- Food and nutrition policy
- Evaluation
- Qualitative and mixed methods research
- Dissemination
- Implementation
- Translation
- Public health informatics
- Behavioral economics
- Food environment
- Public health systems.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Transition towards Sustainable Healthy Diets: A Complex Journey (Deadline: 5 May 2025)
- Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Diet Quality and Non-Communicable Diseases (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- Food Insecurity, Nutritional Status, and Human Health (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- New Perspectives on Diet and Depression (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- The Interdependence of Nutrition and Mental Well-Being (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Physical Activity and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Effects of Caffeine on Sleep and Mental Health (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Nutrition 3.0: Between Tradition and Innovation (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Focus on Eating Disorders of Adolescents and Children (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Dietetic Care in Primary Care and Prevention (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Nutrition and Physical Activity to 24-Hour Movement (Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep) (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Food Processing: Its Negative and Positive Effects on Human Health (Deadline: 25 May 2025)
- Precision Nutrition and Lifespan Health Outcomes (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Healthy Nutrition as the Key Reference in Special Diets, Quality of Life, and Sustainability—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- The Health Benefits of Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds in Functional Foods and Beverages (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Salt and Cardiovascular Health (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- The Effect of Nutrition Interventions on Neuropsychiatric Diseases (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Sensory Nutrition and Health Impact on Metabolic and Brain Disorders (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Nutritionally Relevant Constituents and Biological Activity of Novel Foods (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Effects of Diet and Nutrition on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)—"Greedy Kidney" in Health and Diseases (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- Effects of Dietary Intake of Nutrients on Brain and Cognitive Function (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- The Relationship Between Nuts and Chronic Diseases (Deadline: 5 June 2025)
- The Role of Functional Ingredients in Regulating Health Effects (Deadline: 15 June 2025)
- Disordered Eating and Lifestyle Studies—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- Precision Nutrition for Sustainable Health: Advancing Food Safety and Personalized Dietary Interventions (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Eating in Health and Disease Prevention (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- From Deficiency to Diagnosis: Non-Invasive Approaches in Nutrition Science (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- Pathways Linking Nutrition with Cognitive and Mental Health (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
- Impact of Diet, Nutrition and Lifestyle on Reproductive Health (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
- Eating and Mental Health Disorders (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
- Intermittent Fasting: A Heart-Healthy Dietary Strategy? (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
- Public Health, Nutritional Behavior and Nutritional Status—2nd Edition (Deadline: 5 July 2025)
- Bee Products in Human Health—2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Why Animal-Derived Foods Have Been, Are and Will Be Essential for Human Nutrition (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Diet, Nutrition and Brain Health (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Mega-Trend: Sustainable Nutrition and Human Health (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Association of Dietary Intake with Chronic Disease and Human Health: Physical and Sports Activities and Psychoeducational Interventions (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Interventions to Alleviate Pain (Deadline: 15 July 2025)
- Reducing the Burden of Chronic Diseases Through Plant-Based Diets (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Nutraceuticals’ Role in Promoting Human Health and Well-Being: An Evidence-Based Perspective (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Ultra-Processed Foods, Dietary Quality and Human Health (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Population Sodium Intake: Impacts on Cardiovascular Health (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Community-Engaged Strategies to Improve Food Access, Food Security, and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Food Insecurity, Health, and Academic Outcomes Among US Undergraduate College Students (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Functional Foods and Sustainable Health (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Food as Medicine for Brain and Other Tissues (Deadline: 25 July 2025)
- Nutrition Guidelines for Bariatric Surgery Patients (Deadline: 5 August 2025)
- Alcohol Consumption and Human Health (Deadline: 5 August 2025)
- Antioxidants, Physical Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease: Nutritional and Lifestyle Interventions (Deadline: 5 August 2025)
- Advances in Maternal Diet and Diet-Related Lifestyles with Maternal and Child Health (Deadline: 5 August 2025)
- The Influence of School Meals on Children and Adolescents (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
- Adopting Sustainable Dietary Patterns: Effects of Food Labeling, Food Choices, and Eating Behaviors (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
- Health Challenges in Cancer Survivorship: Personalized Dietary Strategies, Exercise and Behavioral Intervention (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
- Nutritional Modulation of Gut Signals (Deadline: 15 August 2025)
- National Nutrition Survey in Republic of Korea (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- A Path Towards Personalized Smart Nutrition (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Dietary Surveys and Guidance: From Data and Evidence to Action (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Bidirectional Link Between Eating Habits, Lifestyle, Physical Exercise and Depression and Other Mental Disorders—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Community, School and Family-Based Nutritional Research (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Nutrition and Exercise in the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Health Effects of Diet-Sourced Hazardous Factors (Deadline: 5 September 2025)
- Intermittent Fasting: Health Impacts and Therapeutic Potential (Deadline: 5 September 2025)
- The Impact of Social Media on Eating Behavior (Deadline: 5 September 2025)
- Future Foods: Innovations Addressing Global Challenges in Health, Nutrition, Sustainability, and Ethics (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Nutrition and the Disorders of Brain-Gut Axis (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods and Risk of Non-Communicable Diseases (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Research Advances in Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Eating for Human Health (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Measuring Healthy Diets: The Past, Present and Future of Dietary Assessment (Deadline: 15 September 2025)
- Association between Nutrition, Diet Quality, Dietary Patterns, and Human Health and Diseases—2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 September 2025)
- Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Challenges in Adolescents and Young Adults: Implications for Health and Disease (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Mediterranean Diet and Nutrition Literacy (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Nutrition and Exercise Interventions on Vascular Function and Adaptation (Deadline: 5 October 2025)
- Chrono-Nutrition and Human Health (Deadline: 5 October 2025)
- Nutrition in Vulnerable Population Groups (Deadline: 5 October 2025)
- Cognitive and Dietary Behaviour Interventions in Eating Disorders (Deadline: 5 October 2025)
- Food–Gut–Brain: Control of Appetite and Weight Management (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- The Role of Different Dietary Patterns on Anxiety and Depression (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Dietary Supplement in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Nutritional Assessment (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Impact of the Western Dietary Pattern on Human Health—Resolving Controversies and Challenges (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- The Impact of Human Milk’s Structure–Function on Early Human Health and Lifespan (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Mediterranean Diet: Health Benefits and Sustainability (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- Skin Health Starts from Within: Effect of Diet on Skin Health (Deadline: 15 October 2025)
- The Role of Foods and Nutritional and Botanical Supplements for the Enhancement of Human Health and Performance (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- Healthy Diets for Vascular Disease Prevention (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for Hospital In-Patients (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- The Health Impacts of Nutrition Policies Designed to Promote Sustainable and Healthy Diets (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- Nutrition, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases: The Link Between Nutrition and Obesity-Related Diseases (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- Lifestyle Factors, Nutrition and Mental Health in Adolescents (Deadline: 5 November 2025)
- Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems (Deadline: 5 November 2025)
- The Relationship Between Nutrition and Mental Health (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
- Dietary Patterns and Population Health (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Workplace Health Strategy: Dietary and Nutrition Influence (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Food Security, Food Insecurity, and Nutritional Health (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Food Literacy and Public Health Nutrition (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
- Advances in Nutraceutical Research: From New Bioactive Identification to Clinical Testing—the National Congress of the Italian Nutraceutical Society (Deadline: 5 December 2025)
- Optimizing Respiratory Health Through Nutrition: From Prevention to Management (Deadline: 5 December 2025)
- mHealth Interventions for Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Management (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
- Use of Artificial Intelligence to Fight Malnutrition and Food Insecurity (Deadline: 20 December 2025)
- Sub-Optimal Dietary Intake and Risks Relating to Child Development, Chronic Disease and Cancer Outcomes (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- Animal-Originated Food and Food Compounds in Health and Disease (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Mechanisms of Ultra-Processed Foods and Health Outcomes (Deadline: 15 January 2026)
- Food Functional Factors and Nutritional Health (Deadline: 25 March 2026)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
