Building Your Nutrition Advocacy Skills

Building Your Nutrition Advocacy Skills
Building Your Nutrition Advocacy Skills: How dietitians can contribute toward a National Nutrition Policy for Australia

This webinar is brought to you by the DA Public Health and Community Nutrition Interest Group (2020).

Dietitians have a strong and powerful voice as nutrition experts in advocating for a healthier future for all. As Australia's current National Nutrition Policy is nearly 30 years old, the voice of dietitians is more crucial than ever to advocate for its urgent updating. This is evidenced by DA's contribution of the joint statement 'Towards a National Nutrition Policy for Australia (2017)' calling for the Australian Government to develop a new National Nutrition Policy.

Hosted by the DA PHCN IG, this webinar will be delivered by dietetic leaders to present the evidence of effective advocacy strategies and exemplars from experienced colleagues from the DA Indigenous Nutrition IG in translating advocacy skills in local contexts in line with National Nutrition Policy objectives, within their own spheres of influence.

Learning Objectives:

- Understand the rationale and importance of advocacy skills as a dietitian, especially in the context for a National Nutrition Policy for Australia
- Articulate advocacy strategies within a conceptual framework for influencing nutrition policy
- Examine what to do and what not to do as dietitians to contribute towards progressing change
- Analyse real-life examples that apply advocacy strategies in community contexts
- Refer to further resources for dietitians to effectively translate advocacy strategies in local contexts

Speakers:

Dr. Katherine Cullerton is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on increasing the agency of advocates to effectively influence public health nutrition policy and exploring whether it is ever acceptable for nutrition researchers to engage with the food industry. Katherine is also a qualified dietitian and has worked in a range of settings, including with Aboriginal communities, schools, tabacco control and as a national policy officer.

Clare Brown is a public health nutritionist/dietitian and is the program lead for nutrition at Apunipima Cape York Health Council. For the past 10+ years she has worked in a range of community nutrition, research and dietetic roles in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Northern Territory and Cape York. Key focus areas for Clare include working with communities to help create and advocate for supportive environments for health, improving the remote food environment and food security.

Melinda Hammond is currently the Population Health and Program Strategy Manager at Apunipima Cape York Health Council, after leading the nutrition and dietetics team there for 4 years. She previously worked for Queensland Health for over17 years, with her last role being the regional director of Public Health Nutrition for North Queensland. She trained as a dietitian-nutritionist and has spent most of the last 25 years working in public health and primary care with a particular focus on working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to improve health outcomes. Melinda has also worked in tertiary education at James Cook University where she established a nutrition subject and a diabetes post graduate course within the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition. She now enjoys occupying a 'pracademic' space, seeking to foster partnerships between researchers and health service providers to strengthen action-based research and translation of research to practice.

This webinar is worth 1.25 CPD hours.
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