13 March 2025
This innovative online professional development healthy food retail short course is returning for the fifth year in 2025, in a collaboration between RE-FRESH: Next Generation, Monash University, and the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), within the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University.
WHEN: Thursday, July 31, 2025 – Thursday, September 25, 2025 | INVESTMENT: $1300 (AUD)
Secure your place now for this this 9-week professional development opportunity, offering:
- Weekly online Masterclasses led by world-leading healthy food retail research experts who have paved the way in this emerging field
- Practical real-world examples you can relate to
- Your chance to discover the power of marketing and retail merchandising in food environments
- The knowledge and skills to nudge decisionmakers towards retail practices and policies that support healthy changes in food retail – influencing consumer decision-making and population health outcomes.
Who will benefit from this course?
This course has been specifically designed for
- Health promotion practitioners
- Public Health Policymakers – and those working to influence decisions related to making healthy food prioritised, available and effectively promoted
- Nutritionists
- Local government officers
- Those engaged in the complex systems change needed to improve the health of food retail environments for population health benefit – PLUS
- Students studying public health/nutrition at a Masters level.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course, participants will be able to
- Evaluate the role of retail food settings in population diet
- Critique the key theories used in food retail marketing practice and their influence on consumer food choices
- Distinguish the relationships between food retailers, suppliers and manufacturers in the array of retail food settings
- Understand Australian and international regulations, laws and social responsibility agendas that influence food retail marketing practice
- Critique the evidence used to inform practice and policy intervention
- Design a monitoring and evaluation framework from a food retail setting, to inform best practice in relation to health
- Plan an approach to modify a selected food retail setting to be health enabling.
Like to know more? Visit the course enrolment page for a full course overview, details of the course structure, course educators and FAQs.
Special Offer: PhD students receive a 20% discount on course enrolment! Contact base.nutrition@monash.edu to secure your unique one-time use code.
Email us for all course enquiries: base.nutrition@monash.edu
