The IFPH’s short training-course portfolio

Each training is scoped as a short course (half-day, one-day, or a short online masterclass) with a clear audience: clinicians and dietitians, public health and NGO staff, food industry teams, or researchers and doctoral students.

Precision and personalised nutrition

Nutrigenomics in Practice: Personalising Diets for Weight and Metabolic Health. Genotype-guided dietary intervention translated for practitioners, grounded in his Saudi nutrigenetics cohort.
Precision Nutrition for Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity. How to move from generic advice to individualised, evidence-based plans for the two biggest NCD drivers.

Functional foods and gut health

Food as Medicine: Designing Functional Foods that Deliver. The science and practice of engineering foods for a health outcome rather than just fortifying them.
Fermented Foods and Gut Health: From Kombucha to Clinical Evidence. A trend-led but evidence-first look at fermented foods, drawing on his Indonesian kombucha research.
Tailored Functional Recipes: Turning Local Ingredients into Therapeutic Meals. His signature method, taught as a repeatable design process for affordable, culturally appropriate meals.

Sustainable and global nutrition

Sustainable Diets and Planetary Health: An EAT-Lancet Playbook. Practical menu and policy design that improves health and lowers environmental cost.
Food Security and Culturally Appropriate Nutrition in Low-Resource Settings. Programme design for LMIC and community contexts, drawing on his UNICEF and multi-country work.

Clinical and disease-focused nutrition

Nutrition in Cancer and Palliative Care: Managing Cachexia. Supporting weight, strength and quality of life.
Nutrition for People Living with HIV: Immunity, Adherence and Better Outcomes. From a randomised trial to a community programme.
Beating Hidden Hunger: Practical Strategies for Anaemia and Micronutrient Deficiency. Food-first approaches to the deficiencies that undermine whole populations.
Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases through Diet. A single course connecting obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention to everyday food choices.

Family, child and digital nutrition

Digital Nutrition Education for Families and Schools. Designing and evaluating digital health tools that change eating behaviour.
Tackling Childhood Obesity and Stunting: Community-Based Solutions. Family- and school-centred intervention design.

Food safety and food quality

Food Safety Essentials: Trans Fats, Contaminants and Foodborne Risk. A concise practitioner update.

Research, funding and academic skills (For lecturers, research supervisors, and individuals in editorial roles.)

Winning Health Research Grants: An NIHR and UKRI Masterclass. Bid strategy and reviewer insight from someone who writes and reviews programme-grade applications.
Systematic and Scoping Reviews: A Step-by-Step Bootcamp. A hands-on route from question to publishable review, from an author of several scoping reviews.
Getting Published and Surviving Peer Review: An Editor’s Guide. The submission-to-acceptance process, taught from the seat of an Editor-in-Chief.
Designing and Evaluating Nutrition Interventions: A Field Toolkit. Turning an idea into a measurable, fundable study, leveraging the expertise of a specialist in intervention design.

Enrolment

To enrol, complete the application form and return it with the correct fee to:

The International Forum for Public Health (IFPH)
Training-Workshops Department
London, United Kingdom
Email: info@ifph.org
Web: www.ifph.org

Make cheques payable to “International Forum for Public Health”. Places are allocated first-come, first-served. When a course is full, a reserve list opens, and any cancelled places go to those waiting. If there is enough demand and staff are available, IFPH may run a second course.