Public Health Nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health through nutrition and the primary prevention of nutrition related illness in the population The approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole. Public health is community health. It has been said that: "Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time." There are many distinctions that can be made between public health and the clinical health professions. While public health is comprised of many professional disciplines such as medicine, dentistry, nursing, optometry, nutrition, social work, environmental sciences, health education, health services administration, and the behavioral sciences, its activities focus on entire populations rather than on individual patients.

 This conference has got funding support from Indian Counicil of Medical Research (ICMR) and Department of Science and Technology (DST)