The academic background of this doctoral program is based on the previous existence of a doctoral program called "Physiology and Food", governed by RD 778/1998 which was C as an Official Programme of postgraduate program by the Ministry of Education and Science according to Royal Decree 56/2005 (BOE of 25 January 2005), which obtained and maintained the Mention of Quality awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science (Ref. MCD-2007-00012) (BOE 12 October 2012).

This Program was adapted to the European Higher Education Area (Royal Decree 1393/2007, October 29th), with the name of doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health, by the abbreviated procedure . It was positively evaluated by theNational Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation, positively verified by the Universities committee (June 10, 2009) and registered in the Registry of Universities Centers and Qualifications (BOE of February 10, 2010).

Subsequently, the Program was adapted to the verification procedures foreseen by Royal Decree 99/2011, of January 28, which regulates official doctorate studies (BOE of February 10, 2011). It received the Favorable Verification report by the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation on 12/11/2012 (ID degree scroll 5600109). It was positively verified by the Universities committee on 08/03/2013. It was published in the BOE on April 22, 2013.On 27/07/2018 and 11/11/2024, it received favorable accreditation renewal reports from the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation.

The doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health of the University of Navarra obtained the accredited specialization towards Excellence (MEE2011-0136) according to Resolution of October 6, 2011, of the administrative office General of Universities (BOE of October 20, 2011). The report of the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation gives an overall weightedevaluation of 97 points out of 100.

The following Departments and centres of the University of Navarra are participating in development .

- department of Food Science and Physiology of the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.

- department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.

- department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Interfaculty of the Schools of Medicine, Science and Pharmacy and Nutrition.

- Centre for Nutrition Research (CIN) attached to the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition.

Occasionally, depending on the project of doctoral dissertation, professors and researchers from other Departments of the Science area of the University of Navarra and the Clínica Universidad de Navarra may participate in the development of the Programme, mainly in the co-direction of doctoral theses.

Professors and doctors from other national and foreign institutions participate in the Program, either in the co-direction of doctoral thesis , seminars, mobility actions (both of doctoral students and of the professors themselves), participation in thesis tribunals convened to obtain the accredited specialization international accredited specialization in the degree scroll of Doctor, etc. Currently the doctoral program has a doctoral thesis co-supervision agreement with the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil).

• Resolution of the MEC (.pdf)
• report final evaluation (.pdf)