VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
The Institute of Nutrition was established under Decision No. 181/CP dated June 13, 1980 of the Government Council. Decision No. 230/1998/QD-TTg dated November 30, 1998 of the Prime Minister ranked the Institute of Nutrition as one of the six national institutes of the health sector. The Institute was assigned the tasks of researching the nutritional needs and meal structure of Vietnamese people, proposing to the State measures to improve health, prevent and treat diseases in accordance with the nutritional needs and socio-economic development conditions of the country in each period; analyzing the nutritional value of food; researching food hygiene, food testing; therapeutic nutrition and at the same time training nutrition staff for the country.
The establishment of the Institute of Nutrition marked an important milestone for the nutrition sector of Vietnam. The Directors of the Institute through the periods include Prof. Tu Giay - People's Physician, Hero of Labor (1980-1993); Prof. Dr. Ha Huy Khoi - People's Teacher (1993-2002); Prof. Dr. Nguyen Cong Khan - People's Physician (2002-2008), Prof. Dr. Le Thi Hop - Meritorious Physician (2008 - 2013), Prof. Dr. Le Danh Tuyen - People's Physician (2013 - 2022) and currently Associate Professor Dr. Tran Thanh Duong.
Since its establishment, the Institute of Nutrition has undertaken two key state-level research programs coded 64-02 (1981-1985) and 64D (1986-1990). In the following decades, the Institute continued to implement many State-level projects such as KH-11-09 "Research on strategic solutions to improve nutritional status and ensure food hygiene" (1996-2000) and KC 10-05 "Assessment of some nutritional factors that pose risks to public health and intervention solutions" (2000-2006) and many other Ministry-level and Institute-level projects. The research results were applied in implementing the national nutrition strategy, the child malnutrition prevention program and other specific interventions. Nutritional intervention activities have significantly contributed to eliminating dry eye leading to blindness due to vitamin A deficiency in children; reducing the malnutrition rate in children under 5 years old from 51.5% (1985) to 21.2% (2007). The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have assessed Vietnam as the only country in the region that has achieved a reduction in malnutrition close to the level set for the Millennium Development Goals (2%/year). In March 2008, Vietnam was selected by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition as the host country and successfully organized the 35th Conference to share experiences in preventing malnutrition. Since 2005, the Institute has published 8 valuable books and hundreds of articles published in domestic scientific journals, 62 articles published in prestigious international scientific journals...
After more than 40 years of striving and development, the Institute of Nutrition has always fulfilled its tasks well and demonstrated itself as an effective advisory body for the Ministry of Health and other Ministries and Branches on nutrition policies, acting as a focal point for implementing the National Strategy on Nutrition 2001 - 2010, 2011 - 2020 and the Malnutrition Prevention Program.
The Institute of Nutrition has been awarded by the State with 2 Second and First Class Labor Medals and many Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and Hanoi City. In 2005, the Institute was awarded the Emulation Flag of the Ministry of Health, in 2006 the Emulation Flag of the Government. The Party Committee of the Institute of Nutrition was awarded the Strong and Clean Party Flag by the Hanoi Party Committee for 5 consecutive years 1997-2002 and the following years. The Trade Union was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the Government for the years 2004-2007 and continuously awarded the Strong Trade Union Flag from 1993-2007. In 2008, the Institute of Nutrition was honored to receive the Third Class Independence Medal from the President. Due to the above great and effective contributions, on September 11, 2010, the Institute of Nutrition was awarded the title of Labor Hero by the President. This is a great honor for generations of staff of the Institute, and is the recognition of the Party and State for the great contributions of generations of scientific staff of the Institute of Nutrition to the cause of caring for and protecting people's health.
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