About Us
AARPN is a non-for-profit company (company limited by guarantee), founded by Practicing Nutritionists, for Practicing Nutritionists – and is realising a standard of excellence for Nutrition Practice, by way of setting definition, scope, representation and regulation of Nutrition Practice in the Australasian sector.
AARPN facilitates the following:
- (1) The strengthening and modernising of the existing regulatory framework for tertiary trained, clinically-qualified Practicing Nutritionists, who engage in Nutrition Practice.
- (2) Engage productively with fellow allied health professions and allied health stakeholders.
- (3) Promote clinical education options for existing and future tertiary trained nutrition scientists [for those who do not wish to be Dietitians], allowing them to engage in an expeditious, yet comprehensive post-graduate pathway to private-practice; thus affording them the ability to engage in the controlled and regulated application of nutrition science, whilst continuing concurrent research careers.
AARPN considers the strengthening and diversifying of twenty-first century nutrition healthcare (towards personalised nutrition for the support and prevention of diverse chronic illness) to be advantageous and in alignment with the Academy of Science’s Nutrition Decadal Plan – wherein the need to acknowledge the difference between personalised nutrition, and population-based nutrition was highlighted as a pertinent directive, specifically in a time when chronic (and often preventable) illness is placing an untenable burden on the public healthcare system.
AARPN Practitioner Members: Hold to the right to vote at AGMs on association matters, and are represented on the AARPN board by two member-endorsed practitioner representatives from within the member base. AARPN is proudly member and consumer focused, and actively encourages communication from our members.
The AARPN governance structure is visualised below:
Further information about AARPN management can be found via AARPN’s LinkedIn profile:
Certified Practicing Nutritionist is an allied health profession.
More information about this can be found at the following links:
Certified Practicing Nutritionist - Allied Health Professions Australia
A Certified Practicing Nutritionist (CPN) is a tertiary educated, degree qualified, clinically trained Nutritionist (Practicing Nutritionist) whose qualifications have been assessed and accepted as meeting the training and competency standards of the Australasian Association and Register of Practicing Nutritionists.
Australasian Association and Register of Practicing Nutritionists - Allied Health Professions Australia
The Australasian Association and Register of Practicing Nutritionists (AARPN) is the peak body allied health association for professional nutritionists, these being degree qualified clinically trained nutritionists, which AARPN accredits through its Certified Practicing Nutritionist (CPN) program. AARPN is Australia's first independently mono-modality association exclusively representing and advocating for clinically trained tertiary-level qualified professional nutritionists (Practicing Nutritionists) who practice Clinical Nutrition.