The Department of Food Nutrition and Safety is a specialized discipline under the School of Public Health, subject: Nutrition and Food Hygiene (100403). The discipline has been recruiting graduate students since 1984. In 2000, it was approved by the State Council's degree office as a master's degree program. So far, it has been recruited for 32 times, and more than 100 graduate students have been trained. There are 12 faculty members, including 1 professors and 6 associate professors, 2 PhD supervisors, 7 masters, and 2 senior experimenters. Young teachers account for more than 60%, 100% of teachers graduated from doctoral degrees, and 80% of teachers have more than one year of experience in well-known overseas universities.
As of August 2018, the discipline has undertaken more than 90 provincial and ministerial projects, including 11 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and 15 projects of international cooperation. Through acceptance, 1 item of epidemiological investigation of food safety accident health standard and 1 technical guide of epidemiological investigation of food safety accident have been issued by the Ministry of Health.
We published one book as Associate Editor-in-Chief, and other three books as editors in Science Press, including: Food Safety Supervision and Management, Food Toxicology, Special Population Nutrition, Basic Nutrition; published 4 books as the editor-in-chief in People's Health Publishing House, including: "Public Health Practitioners practical skills examination", "Public Health practice skills of Assistant doctors examination" for national Medical qualification examination. We also participated in the development of nutrition standards: Reference intake of Dietary nutrients of Chinese residents 2013 Edition, Modern Food Hygiene; and Special Nutrition.
We undertake many courses for the students majoring Clinical, Oral, Forensic Medicine, Nursing, Maternal and Child and Imaging Specialty, such as "Preventive Medicine", "Introduction to Preventive Medicine", "Clinical Nutrition", "Nutrition and Health"; "Prevention and Control of sudden Public Health events" and "Community Nutrition and Health" for international Master and Ph.D. students; "Clinical Nutrition", "Prevention and Control of sudden Public Health events", "Health regulations and Health Supervision", "Public Health Theory and methods" and "Public Health and Preventive Medicine" for students majoring in preventive medicine.
Academic resources: We have carried out extensive international cooperation and exchanges. We have hosted two international conferences on "Food, Environment and Health", the first International Conference on "Prevention of chronic Diseases", and the International Conference on "Belt and Road Nutrition and Health" in 2008. The Shaanxi Provincial Nutrition and Food Safety Engineering Research Center was also established under the discipline. In 2016, the Kangqiao Dietary Research Center of Xi'an Jiaotong University was established. As the chairman unit of the Shaanxi Nutrition Society, we are leading the nutrition research and academic exchanges of Shaanxi province.
Orientation: the main research areas are obesity epidemiology, nutrition and chronic disease prevention and control, nutrition-epidemiology, molecular nutrition, nutrition and tumor and immunity, food safety risk assessment, intestinal flora and disease, functional phytochemicals, etc. In view of the problem of chronic disease prevention and control in the world, the study of chronic disease risk factors and prevention and control measures based on system science and big data has been first carried out, and the multi-center cooperation, multi-disciplinary cross and multi-level complementation have been put forward. A new method of prevention and control of chronic diseases. Based on cellular and molecular biology, aerobic and anaerobic microbes and phytochemicals detection platforms, focusing on tumor molecular epidemiology, intestinal flora and phytochemicals. In the aspect of disease, nutrition and chronic disease prevention and control mechanism, the systematic scientific research system of cell-animal-population has been formed, and the training base of high-quality nutrition and food safety talents has been constructed in the western region.
Subject characteristics: We has formed the main research direction and research platform with the prevention of chronic diseases as the core and the food safety as the goal. We established many research platforms including 1) the research base of early chronic disease prevention with the nutrition of 0 to 3 years of age as the breakthrough point; 2)the population monitoring and intervention research base for the main risk factors of chronic diseases with hypertension as the breakthrough point; 3) the systematic method of the molecular mechanism of lung cancer pathogenesis; 4) the platform of public health related microorganism detection (including aerobic and anaerobic microbes); 5) a systematic research platform for the prevention of chronic diseases by phytochemicals (from extraction, purification, bioactivity identification, to its cell biological activity, animal whole test research); and 6) multi-department collaborative research platform for food risk detection and assessment, food safety national standards tracking and evaluation, food microbiological research, etc.
The current work of the discipline:
1. Using advanced analytical techniques and toxicological methods, obesity epidemiology, nutrition and chronic disease prevention and control, molecular nutrition, nutrition and tumor and immunity, food safety risk assessment, intestinal flora and disease were carried out. Scientific research on functional phytochemicals, nutritional survey of population and nutrition and exercise intervention of common chronic diseases were carried out at the same time;
2. Using the existing medical and health resources, developing the technical standards and technical specifications for food safety quality control, continuously supplementing and improving the risk assessment and risk management system of food safety in China, and strengthening the international exchange of food safety risks. To provide the basis for the government to formulate corresponding policies;
3.Using the existing experimental equipment and laboratory platform to carry out food safety research, food safety evaluation, food safety testing, to serve the technical progress of the industry, to speed up the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and to provide technical support for the national food safety emergency system.
Director: Yu Yan
Office Phone: 029-82651511
E-mail:yuyan@mail.china.com
