Newswise — The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior annual convention, Raising Reliance and Resilience, brings collectively vitamin educators from across the globe to deal with constructing fairness, planetary well being, future vitamin training, wholesome youngsters and youth, plus analysis and analysis.
From August 8 – 10, 2021, the digital convention will deal with well timed matters together with:
- Prioritizing fairness when making coverage, system, and setting change;
- The affect of COVID-19 on the emergency meals system;
- Race, privilege, and bias in formal training and its affect on neighborhood well being and vitamin training; and
- The function of analysis in resilient and sustainable meals programs.
“Our world is in a interval of speedy change and lots of are feeling a way of urgency, given the continued trauma of racial injustice, financial and political upheaval, international pandemic and extra frequent, extreme local weather adjustments,” mentioned SNEB President-elect and convention chair Jasia Steinmetz, PhD, RD. “Nutrition educators are on the nexus, as the first educators about meals, vitamin and eating regimen to attain each public and planetary well being. Our imaginative and prescient is that individuals are empowered by our efforts.”
Each day of the convention will function a keynote presentation together with two breakout classes. Attendees will work together with the audio system and fellow attendees by chat and dwell digital networking rooms.
Current vitamin training analysis from internationally can be introduced dwell by over 175 oral and poster summary classes. Abstracts of this analysis can be revealed within the July 2021 problem of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
The over 50 hours of convention programming has been authorized for persevering with training items by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, and National Commission for Health Education Credentialing. Registration for members of the Society in addition to non-members is now open with an early registration low cost legitimate by July 12. To register and for extra info, please go to http://www.sneb.org/2021.
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ABOUT THE SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR
The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior is a global group of vitamin training professionals who’re devoted to advancing meals and vitamin training analysis, observe, and coverage that promote fairness, and help public and planetary well being. To be taught extra, go to www.sneb.org.
