This year’s topic will be: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Nutritional Science and Dietetics: Strategies for Culturally Competent Teaching
The symposium will feature four training sessions by four amazing speakers.
Bringing Culturally Appropriate Nutrition Practice into your Classroom
This presentation provides skill building for educators looking to teach their students to be more respectful in their care, including asking questions in a way that honors cultural food practices. This includes integrating aspects of culturally responsive interviewing, diversifying case studies, assessing cultural humility and clinical reasoning in culturally diverse patient scenarios, and the power of language.
Presenter: Melinda Boyd, DCN, MPH, MHR, RD, FAND
Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Cultural Competence
This session will dig into real, everyday strategies to connect with students from all walks of life. You’ll learn how to adapt lessons to reflect your students’ unique perspectives, tackle unconscious biases, and build a classroom where everyone feels welcome. It’s about creating a space where all students can thrive, no matter their background.
Presenter: Madiha Ajaz, PhD
Being a Human in the Room: Teaching Compassionate Nutrition Counseling from a Weight Inclusive Lens
This session highlights nutrition counseling from a weight inclusive lens. Reviews course instruction that incorporates intentional student-centered delivery, with student safety in mind. Shares strategies for presenting nutrition counseling topics to be transparent and include discussions of cultural awareness, autonomy, compassion, intersectionality and trauma informed care.
Presenter: Ashely Munro, MPH, RDN, CDCES
Sowing Seeds of Change: Utilizing Culinary Medicine to Enhance Cultural Competency Training in Nutrition and Allied Health Programs
This session will discuss how to use incorporate culinary medicine in nutrition education and
training with nutrition and other allied health students also helps foster competent intercultural
communication between educators/preceptors and students, clinicians and patients, and facilitators and community members, by celebrating the diversity of nutrients, flavors, and health benefits in the foods we eat as way to promote holistic health.
Presenter: Lily McNair, PSM. RDN
This event will be free for NEHP members and academy student members and minimal charge for
Academy and Non-academy members.
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