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Discover the diverse range of practice settings and opportunities available to you as a community and public health nutritionist with COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION, 8th Edition! The book provides easy-to-understand coverage of program planning, policymaking, and nutrition issues specific to community and public health. Using this innovative book, you'll develop the skills you need to achieve cultural competency, address health disparities, try new technologies, and use fresh approaches to improving the public’s nutrition and health status. You'll also master the knowledge and skills you'll need in practice as you seek to solve population health problems, relating to media advocacy, telehealth, nutrition education, and more.

Dr. Marie Boyle received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern Maine and her M.S. and Ph.D. in nutrition from Florida State University. She is the author of "Personal Nutrition" and "Community Nutrition in Action." Dr. Boyle is a professor in the Foods and Nutrition Department at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey. She also teaches online graduate courses in applied nutrition at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Her other professional activities include membership in the American Public Health Association, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition from Taylor & Francis Publishers.