Community and public health nutrition problems; Frame works in nutrition, Principles of Primary Health Care; Child Survival Strategies. Maternal and Child Nutrition including breastfeeding and child spacing; Nutrition and Development; Population and demographic issues. Malnutrition and infection cycle, Basic concepts of nutritional epidemiology.  Nutrition surveillance; Aetiology, Causes, Prevention and intervention programmes to address Protein Energy Malnutrition, Vitamin A Deficiency, Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Iron Deficiency Anaemia, and other emerging nutritional problems of public health importance.