Public health nutrition capacity: assuring the quality of workforce preparation for scaling up nutrition programmes.

Objective: To describe why and how capacity-building systems for scaling up nutrition programmes should be constructed in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

Design: Position paper with task force recommendations based on literature review and joint experience of global nutrition programmes, public health nutrition (PHN) workforce size, organization, and pre-service and in-service training.

Setting: The review is global but the recommendations are made for LMIC scaling up multisectoral nutrition programmes.