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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.

Have you recently been involved in facilitating or participating in a webinar on food security and the charitable food sector?​ If you have permission to share the recording of this webinar please get in touch with us.

Online Training

  • Farm to Fork: Sustainable Food Production in a Changing Environment (FREE)

    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

  • Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems (FREE)

    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 (FREE)

    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.

Webinars

  • Food Security in Australia Leave No-one behind

    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
    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

  • How the Public Can Drive Food Systems Change: The Role of Institutional Procurement (Webinar 3)

    December 16th 2020

    SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
    A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.

    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. Copyright SUSTAIN

    Panellist
    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

  • Vermont Farm to Plate Plan: From 2009 to 2020 and Beyond (Webinar 1)

    December 2nd 2020

    SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
    A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.

    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. Copyright SUSTAIN

    Panellist
    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

  • Planning for Sustainable Farming and Healthy Food Access (Webinar 2)

    December 9th 2020

    SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network Webinar Series
    A network that designs and builds sustainable and healthy food systems to support flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems.

    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. Copyright SUSTAIN

    Panellist
    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

  • Promoting Food Security in Higher Education: Virtual Dialogue Panel

    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. Copyright SUSTAIN

    Panellist
    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

  • Hidden hunger in Australia

    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.

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  • 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

    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.

  • Food Security - A virtual Conversation

    August 20th 2020

    Panellist:
    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

  • Evaluating Policy for Food Security - Before and After Implementation

    May 4th 2018

    Presenters:
    Dr Martine J. Barons, Director of the Applied Statistics and Risk Unit Warwick University
    In order to provide decision support of local government.

    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.

  • Food Insecurity through Indigenous Perspectives

    November 20th, 2018

    Presenters:
    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

  • Raising the profile of food insecurity in Australia: Using evidence based decision support systems and the voices of food insecurity

    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
    Dr Martine Barons
    , Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, U​K
    Professor Mariana Chilton, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, USA

  • Food Security & Child Development

    July 12th, 2017

    Barbara H. Fiese, PhD, Professor and Director, Family Resiliency Centre
    Please note: the video image is a little blurry so you will find a copy of the PowerPoint slides HERE.

  • Emergency Food Relief: Peering Ten Years into the Future. An interactive forum for Australia's charitable food workforce

    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.

  • PART 1: Food Insecurity Measurement in Canada: Interpreting the Statistics Series

    February 8th, 2017

    PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series

    Moderator:
    Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada

    Presenters:

    • Valerie Tarasuk, PhD Professor, University of Toronto PROOF Principal Investigator
    • Suzanne Galesloot, MSA RD Public Health Nutrition Provincial Lead Alberta Health Services
    • Tracy Woloshyn, RD Public Health Nutritionist York Region Public Health
    • Lynn McIntyre MD MHSc FRCPC FCAHS Professor Emerita University of Calgary and PROOF Investigator
    • Pat Vanderkooy MSc RD Public Affairs Manager Dieticians Canada
    • Carlota Basualdo-Hammond MSc MPH RD Executive Director Nutrition Services Alberta Health Services

  • PART 2: Who is vulnerable to household food insecurity: What it means for policy and practice

    April 24th, 2017

    PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series

    Moderator:
    Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada

    Presenters:

    • Valerie Tarasuk, PhD Professor, University of Toronto PROOF Principal Investigator
    • Suzanne Galesloot, MSA RD Public Health Nutrition Provincial Lead Alberta Health Services
    • Tracy Woloshyn, RD Public Health Nutritionist York Region Public Health
    • Lynn McIntyre MD MHSc FRCPC FCAHS Professor Emerita University of Calgary and PROOF Investigator
    • Pat Vanderkooy MSc RD Public Affairs Manager Dieticians Canada
    • Carlota Basualdo-Hammond MSc MPH RD Executive Director Nutrition Services Alberta Health Services

  • PART 3: How does food insecurity relate to health, implications for health care providers

    May 20th, 2017

    PROOF/CDPAC: Food Insecurity Canada 3-Part Series

    Moderator:
    Craig Larsen, Executive Director Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada

    Presenters:

    • Valerie Tarasuk, PhD Professor, University of Toronto PROOF Principal Investigator
    • Suzanne Galesloot, MSA RD Public Health Nutrition Provincial Lead Alberta Health Services
    • Tracy Woloshyn, RD Public Health Nutritionist York Region Public Health
    • Lynn McIntyre MD MHSc FRCPC FCAHS Professor Emerita University of Calgary and PROOF Investigator
    • Pat Vanderkooy MSc RD Public Affairs Manager Dieticians Canada
    • Carlota Basualdo-Hammond MSc MPH RD Executive Director Nutrition Services Alberta Health Services