C3: Nutrition Program Development for Healthy Communities
The purpose of the workshop is to provide skills and strategies for program managers and frontline workers to develop health promotion projects for building healthy immigrant communities. This workshop will cover the topics of designing health projects for grant applications, developing interactive health programs to get community involved, understanding principles and methods for providing nutrition counselling, and utilizing resources and internet to equip service providers and their clients.
Jian Guan, PhD., Registered Nutrition Counselor. Specializing in public health and immigrant adaptation. Currently teaching at Ryerson University, President of the Canadian Academy of Natural Health. Research publications focus on immigrants’ health and acculturation, depression and access to social services among Canadian Chinese seniors, cross-cultural comparison of seniors’ physical and mental health, cultural effects on physician/patient relations, social and psychological impact of epidemics, and ethical challenge of medicine. Course taught include Medical Sociology, Sociology and Health, Values and Ethics for Health Professionals, Leadership Ethics, and Nutrition Counseling.
