Training and webinars
Hungry for training related to food security? Through online platforms you have access to extensive training and information. See below a list of short courses and webinars curated to aid your learning on food insecurity.
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This 4 week online course focuses on threats to global food security & consider key challenges which need to be overcome in order to maintain healthy & sustainable food supplies for consumer wellbeing in both the developing and developed world.
Training provider: EIT Food, Queen's University Belfast, University of Turin, EIT
This 4 week online course explores the challenges and responsibilities of different people in the food system, including the role of the consumer.
Training provider: EIT Food, University of Reading, EIT
Coursera is an online training platform with a variety of free courses from universities all over the world. Visit their website and search for ‘nutrition’, ‘food security’ or ‘public health’ to uncover a range of relevant courses.
18th October 2022 This symposium hosted in Anti-Poverty Week by the S.H.A.R.E. Collaboration (Solutions supporting Household Food Security in Australia through Research and Evidence) moves the food insecurity discourse towards new and effective solutions. International (US and Scotland) and Australian leaders reflect on key lessons learnt that can inform the way forward. Panellist
Food Security in Australia Leave No-one behind
Joel Berg, CEO Hunger FRee America,
Dr Mary Anne MacLeod, Senior Policy Officer, Food insecurity team, Scottish Government
Dr Jane Fry, University of Melbourne
Beau Cubillo, Monash University
A/Prof Julie Brimblecombe,
Monash University
Prof Danielle Gallegos, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Sue Kleve, Monash University
December 16th 2020 SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
Website: sustain.org.au/
This webinar discusses the experiences of institutional procurement in Vermont, highlighting both its benefits and its many logistical complications. It is then followed by hearing from practitioners and policy makers in Australia who will share state and local initiatives and will discuss how the Vermont approach may be applied in our context.
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Panellist
How the Public Can Drive Food Systems Change: The Role of Institutional Procurement (Webinar 3)
A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.
Jake Claro, Program Director, Vermont Farm to Plate
Sarah Danly, Network Manager, Vermont Farm to Plate
Leah Galvin, Churchill Fellowship Recipient and Freelance Consultant
Veronica Graham, Manager, Health Eating and Physical
Activity, Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
Tim Milsom, Executive Officer, Noongar Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Sophie Lamond, University of Melbourne
Julie Dunbabin, Tasmanian School Canteen Association
December 2nd 2020 SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
Website: sustain.org.au/
This webinar provides the opportunity to learn from the leaders of one of the most comprehensive and long-term food and faming system programs, the Vermont Farm to Plate plan. It is then followed by hearing from practitioners and policy makers in Australia who will share state and local initiatives and will discuss how the Vermont approach may be applied in our context.
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Vermont Farm to Plate Plan: From 2009 to 2020 and Beyond (Webinar 1)
A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.
Jake Claro, Program Director, Vermont Farm to Plate
Sarah Danly, Network Manager,
Vermont Farm to Plate
Holley Jones, Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services
Alan Beattie and Oral McGuire, Noongar Land Enterprise
Pieta Bucello, Cardinia Shire Council, Healthy Communities Coordinator
December 9th 2020 SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
Website: sustain.org.au/
This webinar discusses how the work in Vermont attends to the intersection of food access with land use planning and farmland protection. It is then followed by hearing from practitioners and policy makers in Australia who will share state and local initiatives and will discuss how the Vermont approach may be applied in our context.
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Planning for Sustainable Farming and Healthy Food Access (Webinar 2)
A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.
Jake Claro, Program Director, Vermont Farm to Plate
Sarah Danly, Network Manager, Vermont Farm to Plate
Melanie Chisholm, Manager, Healthy Eating, VicHealth
Stephanie Godrich, Edith Cowan University
November 4th 2020 This webinar discusses the experiences of institutional procurement in Vermont, highlighting both its benefits and its many logistical complications. It is then followed by hearing from practitioners and policy makers in Australia who will share state and local initiatives and will discuss how the Vermont approach may be applied in our context.
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Panellist
Promoting Food Security in Higher Education: Virtual Dialogue Panel
Suman Roy, Executive Director Meal Exchange, Panel Moderator
Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodShare Torronto
Gwen Chapman, Interim provst and VP academic, University of Guelph
Gurneet Kaur Dhami,
MSc Candidate, Mount Saint Vincent University
Kayla Weiler, National Executive Represntative, Canadian Federation of Students - Ontario
August 20th 2020 2018 Dietitians Association of Australia 35th National Conference Dr. Danielle Gallegos is an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian (AdvAPD) and Professor at Queensland University of Technology. She has over 25 years' experience as a practising dietitian, including 15 spent as a public health nutritionist. Her research focus is on food security and early infant feeding. Professor Gallegos surveyed 1,010 households with children using a newly-developed Australia measurement tool, which assesses four pillars of food insecurity, and found one in three households struggle with food insecurity.
Hidden hunger in Australia
August 20th 2020 Connecting to secure healthy food for all West Australians In partnership with Curtin University, the Department of Health, and the Public Health Advocacy Institute, WACOSS delivered two webinars about the Food Stress Index and the COVID-19 and Food Relief Prioritisation.
Webinar 1: Food Stress Index - A world First
August 20th 2020 Connecting to secure healthy food for all West Australians In partnership with Curtin University, the Department of Health, and the Public Health Advocacy Institute, WACOSS delivered two webinars about the Food Stress Index and the COVID-19 and Food Relief Prioritisation.
Webinar 2: COVID-19 and Food Relief Prioritisation
August 20th 2020 Panellist:
Food Security - A virtual Conversation
Professor Danielle Gallegos, Chair, Woolworths Centre for Child Nutrition
Faculty of Health, School - Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
Ms Ronni Kahn AO, Chief Executive Officer and Founder,
OzHarvest
Dr Josie Douglas, Executive Manager, Policy and Governance, Central Land Council, Alice Springs, NT
Ms Khia de Silva, Health and Nutrition Manager, Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation
, NT
May 4th 2018 Presenters:
Dr Martine and her team has developed an Integrating decision support system (IDSS) for food security, which networks relevant data sources, models and expert opinions to evaluate policies’ effectiveness.
Evaluating Policy for Food Security - Before and After Implementation
Dr Martine J. Barons, Director of the Applied Statistics and Risk Unit Warwick University
In order to provide decision support of local government.
November 20th, 2018 Presenters:
Food Insecurity through Indigenous Perspectives
Megan Dark, Registered Dietitian CDE
Karen Fediuk, Registered Dietitian
Melanie Kurrein, Provincial Manager of Food Security with the Population and Public Health Team with the BC centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
Suzanne Johnson,
community health dietitian
December 7th 2017
This seminar hosted by Monash University includes presentations by international researchers on "The Voices of Food Insecurity: Witnesses to Hunger is a research and advocacy project partnering with mothers and caregivers of young children who have experienced hunger and poverty" and Bayesian Modelling:
Creating an Evidence Based Decision Support System on Food Security in Victoria"
Presenters
Raising the profile of food insecurity in Australia: Using evidence based decision support systems and the voices of food insecurity
Dr Martine Barons, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK
Professor Mariana Chilton, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, USA
July 12th, 2017 Barbara H. Fiese, PhD, Professor and Director, Family Resiliency Centre
Food Security & Child Development
Please note: the video image is a little blurry so you will find a copy of the PowerPoint slides HERE.
April 7th 2017
This interactive forum for the Charitable Food Sector was hosted by The Charitable Food Sector Community of Practice and Australia's Right to Food Coalition partnered with leading academic institutions throughout Australia (Monash University, Curtin University, Flinders University, Edith
Cowan University and the University of Canberra).
The program includes presentations from local and international guest speakers, panel discussion, and other participatory activities. The forum discussions covered the present and future state of food insecurity in Australia and Canada, and included critical examinations of existing perceptions
and strategies related to food insecurity.
Emergency Food Relief: Peering Ten Years into the Future. An interactive forum for Australia's charitable food workforce
February 8th, 2017 PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series Moderator: Presenters:
PART 1: Food Insecurity Measurement in Canada: Interpreting the Statistics Series
Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada
April 24th, 2017 PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series Moderator: Presenters:
PART 2: Who is vulnerable to household food insecurity: What it means for policy and practice
Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada
May 20th, 2017 PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series Moderator: Presenters:
PART 3: How does food insecurity relate to health, implications for health care providers
Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada