Nourishing Resilience: Public Health Nutrition Through a Lens of Childhood Adversity

Childhood adversity has recently been heralded as a public health crisis, as long-term physical and mental health consequences are well documented. Meanwhile, child and adult obesity remains a public health priority, calling for interventions at individual and systemic levels. "Resilience" is a construct which describes one's ability to positively adapt to and overcome childhood adversity. This paper aims to point out how nutritional status plays a crucial role in supporting the development of resilience, and identify potential opportunities within the field of Public Health Nutrition (PHN) for cross-sector collaboration to address both childhood adversity and nutritional status simultaneously, which may prove more beneficial than if either domain is addressed in isolation.Master of Public Healt