Reorienting Graduate Nutrition Education: Social Justice and Sustainability in Dietetic Practice and Professional Education

Graduate nutrition education must prepare professionals to engage with complex nutrition challenges shaped by social, environmental, and economic factors. This paper describes a graduate nutrition program redesign in which social justice and sustainability were positioned as organising principles for curriculum development. In response to student feedback and program review, cross-listed undergraduate courses were removed, and graduate-level courses were revised to align with a coherent framework spanning key domains of study, including nutrition across the human lifecycle, research and critical analysis, theories and practices for change, and innovation and leadership. Embedding social justice and sustainability across these domains reframes how nutrition knowledge is generated, applied, and mobilised. This approach offers one way of aligning graduate nutrition education with the evolving demands of nutrition and dietetic practice.