I wanted to briefly explain what I am working on for my practicum. Where I work, DSM Nutritional Products, we have an analysis of 2003-2008 NHANES dietary intake data that shows the percentage of the population meeting micro- and macro-nutrient intakes for various age, gender, income and ethnic categories. I would like to provide this information in a online “calculator” to allow public health nutritionists, dietitians, and the general public to be able to access this data more readily. This could be used to identify risk groups more easily. I will also provide information about the nutrients in the calculator (I have around 30!). At the moment, I am working on getting a web-based prototype up and running so that I can get started on the hard work of producing the content. I will be assisted by a couple of web specialists for the tricky programming stuff.

–Julia Bird