Safe, healthy and sustainable diets

The cross-cutting unit on Safe, Healthy and Sustainable Diets coordinates and brings together relevant inputs from other units in the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety to strengthen the coherence and alignment of WHO’s guidance, policy actions and provision of scientific advice and technical support to the Regional and Country Offices as well as to Member States and support the delivery of increased impact at the country level to achieve the 1 billion target of healthier populations.

This Cross-Cutting Unit develops evidence-informed WHO guidance on:

1. diet and health to reduce the burden of diet- and nutrition-related health problems, including obesity and diet-related NCDs; and
2. policy actions to create enabling food environment which promotes safe, healthy, and sustainable diets, and technical tools, such as nutrient profile models for different policy applications,  to ensure WHO’s guidance and support are solidly based on science.