GPH Students Launch Nutrition Without Borders Club

March 16, 2018
GPH Students Launch Nutrition Without Borders Club

Providing a Platform to Foster Nutritional Interests for All

The College of Global Public Health’s first student club dedicated to public health nutrition is wielding a protein-packed punch in its first two months of existence. Founded in response to the World Food Programme’s “Counting the Beans” exhibit in the GPH student lounge last semester, the club is taking an interdisciplinary approach to increasing student involvement in domestic and global nutrition issues through advocacy, research, volunteering, and outreach. The club offers its members a platform for integrating their studies with their interests in public health nutrition and has a dedicated and active member base from a variety of concentrations, including public health nutrition, epidemiology, public health management, and global health. 

The club’s activities already this semester have included:

  • Building a vertical grow system for the hydroponic farm at the Los Sures food pantry in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
  • Visiting Square Roots, an entrepreneurial organization founded by Kimbal Musk, whose mission is to pioneer farming in climate-controlled storage containers in a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, parking lot before expanding to other major U.S. cities
  • Hosting a student-led internship panel to offer peer advice to undergraduate and graduate students to help them get the most out of the GPH internship experience
  • Networking with nutrition professionals and learning about the preparation and history of pulses in their cultural context—and how to educate others to increase their own consumption of the food—with the New York City Nutrition Education Network
  • Meeting potential GPH students at the recent Admitted Students Day luncheon and club fair
  • Offering GPH students ideas for preparing food and eating healthy throughout grad school on the club’s blog

Upcoming events include a speed interviewing event with public health professionals on the evening of Friday, April 20, 2018, which will be co-sponsored by GPH Student Affairs and the Healthcare Consulting Organization (HCO), another student club, as well as five days of edible promotions during Public Health Week to introduce students to the regions represented in the Zero Hunger Cooking Challenge and to encourage them to join the fun! See more photos and videos on Facebook (NYU.NwB) and Instagram (nyu_nwb).