Dr Jennifer Alden is a Health Broker, her business Growing Change brings people together to activate ideas to improve community health and wellbeing. Seeing the link between what we eat and how it affects our health and that of the planet, Growing Change was established to support local community food initiatives and to consult to organisations, government and community to create opportunities to strengthen local health, environmental and social outcomes in addition to supporting local food economies.
Dr Jennifer Alden
With three decades experience working to improve health and wellbeing in the community Jennifer has a Doctorate of Public Health with a special interest in food policy, is chair of the Bendigo Regional Food Alliance and current board member of Bendigo Foodshare. A member of the Public Health Association of Australia and a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, she is also a published author of the book Liberated Eating. Her most recent role was as CEO of urban agriculture not for profit, Cultivating Community.
More recently she has led a consortium that completed a study for the City of Greater Bendigo assessing the feasibility of a Regional Food Hub, undertook a feasibility study for a Community Food Hub in Wangaratta and is now in the process of doing similarly for the Wyndham City Council.
Growing Change was one of the organisers of the successful recent inaugural Australian Community Food Hubs conference.
She has a keen interest in growing and preparing food as well as an interest in food security in developing countries. Her website www.healthbrokers.com.au features the blogs, Growing Change and The Backyard Pharmacy at Maison Bleue.
Dr Jennifer Alden joins us at The National Sustainability in Business Conference in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. For more information on the 2017 National Sustainability in Business Conference, opportunities to speak or to register for the conference, please visit the conference website.
