Revista de Nutrição Rev. Nutr. 2018;31(1):97-117 EDUCATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 97 https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-98652018000100009 REVIEW 1 Universidade Federal de Goiás, Faculdade de Nutrição. R. 227, Qd. 68 s/n., Setor Leste Universitário, 74605-080, Goiânia, GO, Brasil. Correspondência para /Correspondence to: GM ALMEIDA. E-mail: <gessicamercia@gmail.com>. 2 Universidade de Brasília, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição Humana. Brasília, DF, Brasil. 3 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade, Laboratório de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional e Políticas Públicas. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 4 Universidade de Brasília, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição Humana. Brasília, DF, Brasil. Como citar este artigo/How to cite this article Almeida GM, Oliveira KHD, Monteiro JS, Medeiros MAT, Recine EGG. Educational training of nutritionists in Public Health Nutrition: A systematic review. Rev Nutr. 2018;31(1):97-117. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-98652018000100009 Educational training of nutritionists in Public Health Nutrition: A systematic review Formação do nutricionista em Saúde Pública: uma revisão sistemática Géssica Mercia de ALMEIDA 1 0000-0002-5722-7260 Klébya Hellen Dantas de OLIVEIRA 2 0000-0003-3600-4009 Jordanna Santos MONTEIRO 2 0000-0003-2590-5028 Maria Angélica Tavares de MEDEIROS 3 0000-0002-8982-7084 Elisabetta Gioconda Iole Giovanna RECINE 4 0000-0002-5953-7094 A B S T R A C T The present systematic review aimed to synthesize the findings of studies in the literature on the educational training of nutritionists in Public Health. The study was conducted by searching international databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Lilacs, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science), as well as in the gray literature. The steps of systematic search followed the recommendations of the Preferred Reporing Itens for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. Eligibility criteria included studies on the Public Health training in Nutrition Undergraduate courses, whose subjects were students, educators, and professionals who practice in the field of Nutrition. A total of 633 articles were identified, of which, 66 were eligible for reading and analysis of the full text and 12 were included in the systematic review. Of these, five of these 12 articles used quantitative methods, 3 used mixed methods, and 4 used exclusively qualitative methods. There was high heterogeneity among the CC BY