Nutrition education promoting life-long wellness

Charles Sturt offers quality learning and teaching in food and nutrition, exercise science, oral health and medicine disciplines that facilitate student learning in direct disciplines related to good health and wellbeing. Our nutrition academics, Ruth Crawford and Dr Marissa Samuelson, deliver a suite of subjects providing foundational knowledge about nutrients, foods and dietary patterns, and their impact on health and wellbeing.

This learning and teaching address the impact of nutrition on acute and chronic disease development and healthy growth, development and ageing throughout the life span. Our students learn about the determinants of health and nutrition and how these impact behaviour change.

Students undertaking study within this set of subjects are equipped with the knowledge to optimise nutritional status, including important concepts of health promotion, disease prevention approaches and principles of behaviour change. The many nutrition subjects offered at Charles Sturt ensure our students graduate with the skills to find, evaluate and implement quality evidence concerning health and wellbeing best practice.