History – IHNF

History

After the College of Human Ecology was established, the Department of Human Nutrition and Food (DHNF) was elevated to Institute of Human Nutrition and Food (IHNF) in May 19, 1988. This is in response to the need to develop human nutrition as a discipline in a University campus with an agriculture and rural development thrust. Along with the thrust, the IHNF is tasked to perform the following:

Provide formal and non-formal education as it relates to training of development-oriented professional nutritionists and nutrition- oriented development professionals;
Conduct applied and action-oriented research activities and projects aimed at investigating the interrelationships of the environment and the nutriture of man; and
Develop training materials to foster better understanding and appreciation of the principles of human nutrition and food and health for the use in the continuing education program of the Institute.

1950s

1974

1983

1988

Food and nutrition was already a well-defined area in the then Department of Home Technology

Department of Home Techonology was converted into the Institute of Human Ecology. nutrition was one of the operational areas of the institute.

The Institute of Human Ecology became the College of Human Ecology. One of its departments is the Department of Human Nutrition and Food.

DHNF was elevated to the now Institute of Human Nutrition and Food.