Institute of Nutrition and Food Science- Dhaka University

The INFS offers academic courses in Nutrition and Food Science. At present the Institute runs the following courses:

(i) Four years B.S.(Hons.),
(ii) One-year M.S
(iii) M.Phil and
(iv) Ph.D.

Apart from the academic programs the activities of INFS include basic and applied research in different aspects and fields of nutrition and food science including nutrition survey and surveillance, laboratory experiments, research in nutrition, food sciences, microbiology, health sciences, food and nutrition policy, evaluation of interventions, technical advisory services, and training. Since its establishment, the INFS has conducted most of the nutrition research and training in Bangladesh. It also played an important role in nutrition advocacy drawing attention to the urgency of the nutritional problems and recommending means to address them. The INFS will continue its academic and training programs in various fields of nutrition and food science for the development of trained manpower, field level activities in the assessment, experiments in the laboratory, monitoring and analysis of nutritional problems, and in the evaluation of the intervention programs.