Our Role & Impact

Enabling the discoveries that ensure families are happy and healthy

Our Role & Impact
  1. Our Role & Impact
  2. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH HMRI
  3. Nutrition Connect: providing an online platform to link rural families to health professional advice and support for healthy eating, especially for obese children

Nutrition Connect: providing an online platform to link rural families to health professional advice and support for healthy eating, especially for obese children

This project will focus on providing telehealth nutrition intervention for rural parents who are concerned about their child’s weight or eating habits.

The platform will be able to link rural families by video conferencing or telephone, when additional advice or support is needed to a telehealth consultation portal with an Accredited Practising Dietitian. It will also include access to nutrition resources that will be housed on the existing Back-to-Basics website with specific components added for both parents and children that promote healthy eating and healthy weigh, including links to nutrition apps relevant to families.

Researchers 

Professor Clare Collins, Dr Tracy Burrows

Research Area 
Cardiovascular
Project type 
Project Grant
Year of funding 
2016