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Course Description:

This course helps public health workers and/or volunteers to identify common nutritional challenges refugees experience upon resettlement. Strategies to address various challenges including difficulty navigating a new food environment, lack of food safety knowledge, food preparation difficulties, and nutrition knowledge deficit will be addressed.  The importance of conducting a needs assessment and various assessment tools will be discussed.

Course Objectives:   

Learn common nutritional challenges refugees face upon resettlement.
Recognize difficulties refugees encounter upon arrival to a new food environment.
Apply strategies to help refugees overcome common nutrition challenges.

Course Designers:

Abigail Manuel, BS, DTR
Ghaidaa Kobeissi, BS
University of Arizona Dietetic Interns, class of 2016

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Details

Mode of Delivery:
  • Online (self-paced)

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Who we are

The Western Region Public Health Training Center is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health is a Designated Multiple Event Provider of Continuing Education Contact Hours (CECH) for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. The Western Region Public Health Training Center is an organizational member of the True Health Initiative

Funding Statement

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under UB6HP31687 and the Regional Public Health Training Center Program for $1,013,453. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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