Â鶹ԭ´´

Are you passionate about the interaction between foods, nutrition and health? Turn your interest in healthy eating into a professional career, and help the public achieve their optimum health, lifestyle, and wellbeing through evidence-based nutritional guidelines.

Our comprehensive human nutrition degree will train you to become a work-ready and competent nutritionist to educate and promote a balanced diet and overall health and wellness to the public. Youll tap into the multi-faceted discipline of human nutrition and gain an appreciation of the broad scope of food in society, in-depth knowledge of nutritional and biomedical science and understand the role of nutrition in health and disease prevention.

Youll learn from experienced educators and researchers who specialise in diverse areas of nutrition science including dietary intake and metabolism, public health nutrition, functional foods, sports and exercise nutrition, food science, body composition, medical nutrition therapy, hunger and satiety, and maternal and child health.

This course will prepare you to become a work-ready professional nutritionist with a career in various industries, research, or government and non-governmental agencies. You can be an advisor or consultant in:

• clinics or hospitals
• digital health companies
• scientific and regulatory affairs
• community and public health organisations
• media companies
• the food industry
• the sports and fitness sectors
• the wellness industry.

You can also be a:

• functional foods and natural products researcher
• healthy foods entrepreneur
• nutrition research scientist
• nutrition academic in the higher education sector.