Non-Award
Monash University with the Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments (RE-FRESH) bring to you a short course on healthy food retail. Food retail stores, including grocery stores and supermarkets are prime settings to improve population diet and health. How foods are marketed and made available in these settings influence consumer food choices. Food retail practice and policy for population health improvement is a rapidly developing research and practice area in Australia and overseas.
This short course will provide learners with the specialist skills and knowledge to contribute to this exciting practice area.
It will upskill participants with the knowledge and skills in the theory of consumer decision-making, the power of marketing and retail merchandising, and how, when and where to intervene to facilitate change in practice and policy.
It will facilitate learning between practitioners working with different retail settings and enable participants to harness the expertise of practitioners, policy-makers and academics working at the cutting edge of health-enabling food retail.
This course is brought to you by the researchers and educators at the RE-FRESH: Centre of Research Excellence: Food Retail Environments for Health.
The key aims of RE-FRESH are to drive cross-disciplinary research; build capacity in front line practitioners and retailers; build a workforce equipped to help transform food environments to enable healthy eating; and promote collaboration to improve the health of our food retail environments to improve population health. The short course team comprises some of the world's leading researchers in this rapidly developing area of food retail for public health.
Our experts include those who have experience in planning, performing and evaluating interventions and policies and they are focused on sharing their expertise with others to facilitate healthier food environments. RE-FRESH also has a broad range of engaged stakeholders, within local government settings, in First Nations communities, in supermarkets, university and health care settings and in urban food retail, many of whom have expressed a desire for evidence-based training to assist them in improving the health of retail food environments.
This course is for those in positions who can influence food retail environments to be more health enabling.
This includes public health practitioners such as nutritionists and dietitians, health promotion officers, community development officers, public health/population health nurses, health education officers, public health policy-makers, local government officers, town planners and public affairs officers.