The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine of Tulane University, New Orleans, USA has requested Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI) to organize a two-week, two-credit, study tour for students during the period May 19 to 31, 2003.  The tour is entitled: ”A Study of Field methods for Nutrition programmes in the Caribbean” and will comprise fourteen students and two lecturers.  The aim of the tour is to provide theoretical and practical experiences in public health methods used in the management of population nutritional issues.