Divisions

Divisions bring together members with shared interests and offer valuable opportunities for networking and education. You’ll see this specialized expertise in action through conference sessions, year-round webinars, Division newsletters, meetings, online forums, and JNEB editorials, among other activities. Best of all, members can join as many Divisions as they like—for free—at any time during their membership!

Digital Technology in Nutrition Education and Behavior Change

Technology is transforming how we approach nutrition education and behavior change. The Digital Technology in Nutrition Education and Behavior Change division recognizes that with new technologies, it is vital to assert our role in integrating nutrition, social, and behavioral sciences into these innovations.

Food and Nutrition Extension Education Division (FNEE)

This division connects nutrition educators from all levels to share ideas and resources. FNEE provides workshops at the SNEB Annual Conference and mentors new members. Collaboration across local, state, and national levels enhances program development. Why join the FNEE Division? Watch the video!

Healthy Aging Division

The goal of this division is to provide a forum for SNEB members to network, stimulate research, and optimize nutrition-related quality of life for older adults through improved nutrition education and behavior. FNEE focuses on optimizing nutrition-related quality of life for older adults, provides a platform for knowledge sharing, skill-building, and policy development and collaborates with SNEB leadership to support members’ professional development. Listen to Susan Adams talk about why she is a member of SNEB and the Healthy Aging Division

Higher Education Division

The Purpose of the Higher Education Division is to provide individuals who work with or at post-secondary institutions space to network, to share pedagogical methodology and strategies to improve the effectiveness of teaching, to engage in research, and to collaborate in addressing challenges and opportunities related to nutrition in the higher education setting. A class activity shared by Lora Beth Brown, EdD, RDN based on an SNEB Talks 2015 session “Nutrition Science or Science Fiction? A Class Activity and Homework Assignment Promoting Scientific Literacy”

International Nutrition Education (DINE)

This Division was created in response to an expressed need for a more international perspective and focus within the Society. DINE aims to bring international topics and membership into all SNEB does: Journal articles, webinars, conference sessions, strategies, communication, etc.

Nutrition Education for Children Division

The Nutrition Education for Children Division’s goals are to link nutrition educators, researchers, and practitioners to one another to help improve research, education, and practice. To reach these goals, our division works extensively with SNEB leadership and SNEB divisions to promote skill building, information sharing, advocacy, and communication.

Nutrition Educators in the Food Sector

This division includes SNEB members with broad-based educational and career experiences who work in the food sector, which encompasses subsector companies and organizations — manufacturers, food service, restaurants, trade associations, and agri-farm sector organizations. The NEFS mission is to provide a focal division within SNEB to raise awareness of and promote collaboration on consumer nutrition education and behavioral research, resources, and programming among SNEB members and the diverse practitioners in the food sector.

Public Health Nutrition Division

Members bring a mix of public health-related interests, including health communication, disease prevention, health promotion, teaching, research, and hunger. The division focuses on helping members exchange information, contribute to public policy issues relevant to all areas of public health nutrition, and seek opportunities with other partners to enhance nutrition education messages for the public.

Research Division

The Research Division is Dedicated to advancing the field of nutrition education through research and collaboration. It aims to provide networking opportunities for students and researchers to foster future nutrition educators and enhances submissions to JNEB by building research capacity across disciplines.

Student Division

All student members also become members of the Student Division at no cost. The Division works on programming and resources specifically for students!

Sustainable Food Systems Division

The mission of this division is to promote food systems that are environmentally sound, socially just, economically viable, and produce quality food. The division supports leadership in advocacy, education and research through communications and networking among division members and with individuals and organizations in the public-at-large. Members receive newsletters and can participate in a listserv.