The department

NHD is organized in 4 programmatic areas of work:

• Growth Assessment and Surveillance;
• Country Focused Nutrition Policies and Programmes;
• Reduction of Micronutrient Malnutrition
• Nutrition in Development and Crisis

And three cross-cutting themes:

• advocacy, communication, and resource mobilization;
• partnership and increased collaboration with all internal and external partners;
• teamwork, increased integration, and information sharing.

These cross cutting themes reflect important pillars within the management philosophy of the Department.

STATEMENTS Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals Statement to the Executive Board of UNICEF by Dr Catherine le Galès-Camus, Assistant Director-General of Noncommunicable diseases and Mental Health, January 17, 2006 Full text

ORGANIGRAM AS A PICTURE NHD organigram full detail [pdf 55kb]