Advocacy Insights: Healthy and sustainable food systems

Advocacy Insights: Healthy and sustainable food systems
Action, Advocacy, Allyship and Activism for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

This webinar is brought to you by the Dietitians Australia Education Centre, the Dietitians Australia Policy and Advocacy Team, and the Food and Environment Interest Group (2022).

Urgent food system transformation is needed to transform human and planetary health. Dietitians can play a key role in this transformation, but how?

In this Advocacy Insights webinar, attendees will hear short snapshots from several practitioners who have successfully implemented advocacy activities to achieve healthy and sustainable food systems. This webinar will inspire and prompt attendees to consider how they can apply action, advocacy, allyship and activism in their own dietetic setting.

Speakers:

Justine Dillon is a Kombumerri & Quandamooka woman. She is a Traditional Owner to the beautiful Gold Coast and Moreton Bay area. Currently Justine is the Project Coordinator for Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association Incorporated & Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area for the last 7 years, having also served on the Ngarang-Wal Board of Directors in the role of Secretary for 18 years. Prior to this, Justine completed her Bachelor of Education (Primary) at Griffith University and went into local teaching contracts at local primary and high school institutions for 4 years. Leading up to teaching, Justine worked as an Indigenous Education Worker at a local high school whilst completing tertiary studies andmanaged to maintain constant cultural connections via working & volunteering for Ngarang-Wal G.C.A.A Inc.

Klara Kalocsay is a Research and Content Manager at Food Frontier. With a background in both nutrition and communications, Klara’s work at Food Frontier has focused on synthesising the literature surrounding alternative proteins, the food system and nutrition, and making it accessible for Food Frontier’s stakeholders across the media, food industry, investors, government and consumers. Klara’s research underpinned Food Frontier’s 2020 report, Plant-Based Meat: A Healthier Choice? - a world-first comparative analysis of the nutrition of plant-based meat products on sale in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining Food Frontier, Klara worked in health promotion and food policy in local government, as well as in communications roles for technology start-ups such as Uber and Twitter.

Dr. Kristen MacKenzie-Shalders is a sustainability advocate, scientist, educator, and dietitian. She is currently the Food Service Domain Lead in the Bond University Master of Nutrition and Dietetics Program and the Sustainability Chair for the Bond University, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Sustainability Advisory Committee. Her experience spans key areas including food service management, consultancy, research, and private practice. In recent years, Kristen is increasingly focussed on not ‘what’ people eat but ‘why’ people eat the way they do within the broader context of environmental sustainability and planetary health, food systems and food citizenship. https://bond.edu.au/profile/kristen-mackenzie-shalders

Nicole Senior is an experienced freelance Accredited Practising Dietitian with a focus on nutrition communications across the food sector from primary produce to packaged foods with a range of audiences including government, industry, health professionals and consumers. Nicole has a keen interest in healthy and sustainable food systems and is co-chair of the Dietitians Australia Food and Environment Interest Group.

Stefanie Carino works at Eastern Health in a newly established role as a 'Sustainable Food Systems Dietitian' and is the Sustainable Healthcare Program Manager at the Climate and Health Alliance. She recently completed her PhD which explored the barriers and enablers for hospitals locally and globally to achieving environmentally sustainable foodservices.

Fiona Armstrong is the Founder and Strategic Projects Director of Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) whose mission is to build a powerful health sector movement for climate action and sustainable healthcare. She is the lead author of many of CAHA’s publications, and has conceived and led many of its impactful projects, including as architect of the world’s first Framework for a National Strategy on Climate, Health and Well-being for Australia (2017); the 2021 Rewrite the Future Roundtable series, which led to the publication, ‘Australia in 2030: Possible Alternative Futures’, and the accompanying Healthy, Regenerative and Just policy agenda. Fiona was named one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence (2016), won the Tony McMichael award for leadership on health and the environment (2017); the Frank Fisher Award (2018), and was one of ProBono’s Impact 25 and Judges Choice Influencer Award recipient in 2022.

Jo McCormack has been working in Academia at Griffith University for over 10 years, and in 2018 commenced her PhD. Jo’s PhD examines how we teach students about sustainability and effective ways to implement the learning of sustainability principles into the curricula. Jo is passionate about empowering dietitians to live and practice through the lens of planetary health and social justice. In addition to her PhD, Jo is currently working with a multidisciplinary team at Griffith University to highlight and enhance the sustainable development curriculum within the School of Health Sciences and Social Work. Please contact Jo if you would like any further information.

Sandy Murray has over 30 years' experience as an APD. She is a lecturer in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) and has extensive experience working in a range of other settings, including private practice, public health nutrition, and food industry during her career. Sandy is a current member of DA’s Food and Environment Interest Group. She plays an active role in the transformation of the UTAS on-campus food system where she won the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) Green Gowns Award of Excellence in 2020 for her commitment to food systems transformation. She is presently undertaking her PHD exploring food justice in Tasmania as a lever for change. In her community Sandy has been integral in establishing Tasmania as a UN Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainability and recently has been involved in bid to establish Launceston as a UNESCO City of Gastronomy.

This webinar is worth 1 CPD hour.

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