Train the Trainers: Equipping Nutrition Educators with Knowledge Application Tools in Food Systems Assessment to Influencing Health Care Practitioners

Tuesday, July 24 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Nicollet D

Moderator: Zubaida Qamar, PhD, San Francisco State University

Speaker: Prof Sumantra Ray, MBBS, MPH, MD, NNEdPro Global Centre For Nutrition And Health

Globally we are experiencing a nutrition transition, where there is co-existence of both under and over nutrition in same populations. To tackle this global burden of malnutrition, nutrition educators are well equipped and competent in providing robust, evidence-based and regulated nutrition advice through motivational interviewing, counseling and behavior change. Due to lack of training and difficultly accessing reliable nutrition evidence, healthcare practitioners are unable to integrate nutrition into clinical practice.

Using a multi-modal education method, this session will equip nutrition educators with knowledge application tools extending their scope of practice and influencing wider healthcare workforce to integrate nutrition into practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. To equip nutrition educators with knowledge application tools to influence healthcare practitioners and develop understanding on the need for multidisciplinary collaboration in providing nutrition care.
2. To provide nutrition educators with the tools to extend their scope of practice to the wider healthcare workforce within food systems.
3. To expose nutrition educators to novel education and training methods to further enhance their practice in providing nutritional care. 

Organized by the Division of International Nutrition Education.