|
Tasks:
Research:
 -
Researching the needs of nutrition and structure of Vietnamese
meals which are proper with physiological state, ecological
condition and the socio-economic condition of Viet Nam in each
period.
- Analysing the nutrition value of food in structure of
Vietnamese meals; setting up the quality standards of food in
the structure of Vietnamese meals.
- Researching the hygience in eating and drinking;
participating to make the regulation of eating and drinking
and to eatablish the criteria of the food quality control that
these food are imported or processed in Viet Nam.
- Researching the ways of treatment by eating and drinking;
setting up the diatery as disease.
- Researching the identification of nutritions condition, the
food consumption and the food hygience and safety.
- Researching the introduction of solutions to improve the
nutritious conditions and ensure the food hygience and safety.
Training:
- Complementing the profession and
method of research in nutrition and hygience and safety.
- Training and retraining for cadres in profession of
nutrition and food hygience and safety.
- Participating in graduation and postgraduation in profession
of nutrition and food hygience and safety.
Profession
leading and guiding:
- Examining, supervising and
evaluating the implemetation of technical profession in
facilities with tasks of nutrition and food safety and
hygiency.
- Setting up the plan and solutions to deploy the profession
of nutrition and food safety and hygience in: network making,
research, training and implementation of programs and projects
of nutrition and food safety and hygience.
- Organizing the technical meetings, training courses of
profession of nutrition and food safety and hygience.
- The education and communication of rational nutrition and
food safety and hygience.
 International
cooperation:
- Establishing and enhancing the
relations with countries and organizations in the region and
in the world in the field of nutrition and food safety and
hygience.
- Sending and admitting the cadres to train, research and
exchange the experiences with countries and organizations in
the region and in the world.
- Cooperating in researching and training for the cadres and
deploying the projects in the field of nutrition and food
safety and hygience.
NIN is focal point of world health
organization for the food safety and hygience in 1995, the
center for cooperation of public nutrition of SEAMEO-TROPMED
in 1994 and is national focal point of nutrition and food
safety and hygience.
Organizational structure:
Department
of basic and school nutrition:
- Chief of: Ph.D Do Thi Kim Lien
- Labos: biochemistry, nutritious physiology and research on
nutrition in school:
- Being responsible for setting up, checking and regulating
the need of nutrition of Vietnamese; Researching the basic
metabolism and energy consumption in order to identify the
need of energy of Vietnamese; Setting up the consultant for
rational nutrition; setting up the indicators of physiology,
biochemistry in order to evaluate the nutritious condition.
- Evaluating the condition of obesity in adults and related
factors; Establishing the strategy for obesity prevention and
control; Evaluating, supervising the physical and
psychological development of children in school age; setting
up and developing the nutritious education programs in school;
Researching and prapagandizing the breakfast and lunch in
school; setting up the training program for nutrition and food
safety and hygience for health workers and chefs in school;
Coodinating with center for education and other department in
order to implement the training for health workers and chefs
in school.
The
public nutrition department:
- Chief of: M.D Le Bach Mai
- Researching, monitoring the kinetics of the nutrition
problem related with the public health accordance with ages
(especially mother and children) and occupation: food
consumption, nutritious condition, hypoferric anemia, vitamin
A deficiency, ... researching the nutrition epidemiology in
school; Deploying the intervention programs for health
problems related the public health.
 The
applying nutrition department: chief of Ph.D Tu Ngu
- Researching the food safety in
the family grade; supervising the nutrition and food;
Interventing the nutrition in the publicity. This department
has two teams: the food safety and nutrition supervision.
Etiological
nutrition and nutritious regulation department
- Setting up the treatment
dietery, dietery in hospital, the dietery for metabolic
disorder and elderly, recovering dietery for malnutrious
children; dietery advice; organizing the activities of
nutrition department in hospitals, applying the results of
researches in practices and supplement of profession for
cadres.
The
food safety and hygience department:
-
Chief of: M.S Ha Thi Anh Dao
- Researching the composition of food nutrition, chemical
toxics and food microorganism; setting up the standards of
quality and controlling the quality of the food hygience and
safety.
Research
and application for nutritious trace element:
-
Chief of Ph.D Nguyen Xuan Ninh
- Researching the needs, role and metabolism of trace elements
for human health.
- Evaluating and monitoring the condition of trace element
deficiency (vitamin A, hypoferric anemia) of various
population groups in Viet Nam.
- Cooperating with related institutes to research the
solutions aiming improvement of the condition of trace element
deficiency in Viet Nam.
- Enhancing the international cooperation in the field of
nutrious trace element.
Training
center for nutrition and food:
-
Director: Ph.D Le Thi Hop
- Being the sector - crossing training facility in nutrition
and food safety through the country. The main activities of
the center are to train the cadres for sector-crossing
nutrition and to upgrade the professional knowledge for cadres
of nutrition profession. Collaborating with the Ha Noi medical
University and other universities in training the master of
science of nutrition and food safety profession and preparing
the material facility to train the Ph.D of this profession.
Setting up the strong network of cadres of nutrition from
central level to local levels).
Center
for the nutrition communication and education
- Chief of: Ph. D Cao Thi Hau
- Deploying the education activities of nutrition,
disseminating the knowledge of rational nutrition and the food
hygience and advising the nutrition. Researching the KAP
(knowledge, attitute and practice) and educating the nutrition
in order to change the behaviour of nutrition. Researching the
field related with behaviour changes to apply for the
nutrition and health education.
Management
and administration departments:
Including the planning department,
personnel department, administration department, the
international cooperation department, the quality control of
nutrition department and the practising department.
Some main achievements:
- Evaluating the nutrition
condition and the fact nutrition part of Vietnamese in the
various regions.
- Evaluating the epidemiological features of diseases caused
by malnutrition.
- Setting up the need of nutrition for Vietnamese which is
basis of the nutrition policies of Viet Nam government.
- Setting up and updating the list of the nutrition components
of the Vietnamese food.
- Researching the food hygience and safety, setting up the
hygience standards which is legal basis of state management in
the food hygience and safety.
- Researching the nutrition aspects in the alternative
periods.
- Cooperating with the Ha noi medical university in training
the master of science of the public nutrition.
- Establishing the nutrition policies through development the
national plan of nutrition (NPAN); leading and guiding the
program of malnutrition control of children and the nutrition
trace element deficiency (vitamin A defficiency and alimentary
anemia).
- Nutrition communication and education and nutrition
supervision
- The international cooperation: Cooperating with UNICEF, WHO,
FAO, WFP and ILSI as well as many NGOs in the field of
nutrition and food safety such as INMU (Thai Lan), Los- Banos
university (Philippines), IRD (France), and ®
SEAMEO-TROPMED. |
