CASNA’s activities focus on a set of competencies that collectively cover current and emerging issues in Asia, namely:

1. Community-based strategies to eliminate maternal and child malnutrition

2. Integrating nutrition into women and child development programs

3. Preventing diet-related chronic diseases by targeting the double burden of the poor

4. Food-based approaches to achieve nutrition security

5. Application of cutting edge assessment technologies for public nutrition

6. Communication for pro-nutrition behavioral change

7. Capacity strengthening in nutrition research training and teaching

8. Applying human resource economics for investment planning in public nutrition

9. Capacity for managing public nutrition programs and institutions