Capstone Internship & Experiential Learning Program is a credit-bearing internship program in HKU organised by UNi with School of Biological Sciences of HKU. This internship aims to provide students the opportunity to understand the relationship between public health nutrition, public health education, poverty and inequality in different societies. Students will be able to develop nutritional epidemiology and research tools to determine the factors involved in public health nutrition. Students will carry out research internship in Cambodia where they will gain knowledge and experience of carrying out research work in rural areas and research general health and socio-economic issues to carry out their own project work on campus to sustain their experiential learning process. Students will be assessed on their ability to design and conduct research study as well as communication and presentation skills. The assessment will be divided as such: verbal skill, design research proposal, critical analysis of data, and social inclusion.

 

Details of the Program

Program Supervisor

Dr. Jennifer M.F.  Wan 

Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong.

 

 

Period of Internship

June - July

 

Eligibility

Year 3/Year 4 student

Majoring in Food and Nutritional Science or related major

 

 

Program Objectives

To carry out research work in rural areas and research public health and socio-economic issues in related to food and nutritional aspect, including:

 

 i.    Health-related Survey

 ii.   Anthropometric measurement

 iii.  Food Safety

 iv.  Agricultural Practice

 v.   Nutrition Assessment

 

To understand the food production process and food safety in rural area.

To facilitate knowledge transfer to developing countries in the area of nutrition and public health. To coordinate and take part in the Seminars co-organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (Cambodia), World Food Program (Cambodia), Royal University of Phnom Penh, Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia.

 

 

Internship contents

There are workshops in Hong Kong before the internship starts

1.     Lectures on Diet-related Diseases, Nutrition Assessment and Public Health

2.     Seminar preparation and Rehearsal

3.     Group project preparation

4.     Simulation on lives in developing countries

 

In Cambodia Students will

• present in seminars in universities co-organized with NGO and international agents like UNFAO.

• Conduct health-related survey in rural villages

• Conduct anthropometric measurement in rural villages

• Ngo visits

• Food factories visits and farm field works

 

After back to Hong Kong Students will

• Data analysis and report writing

• Presentation on the data collected