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Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate

Scholarships for a Plant-Based Nutrition course is open to those interested to attend the class in May 2025. This is an online 6-8 week course offered by the Center for Nutrition Studies, a non-profit organization. It gives students an understanding of the social, economic, and political factors that shape nutrition, health and health care in the U.S., an approach that is not taught in one university course alone. It also presents recent scientific evidence supporting the benefits of a whole-food plant-based diet, especially in the prevention and reversal of many chronic diseases.

You can learn more about the Center for Nutrition Studies and this course by clicking on the link below.

https://nutritionstudies.org/

It is open to everybody, and successful candidates for the scholarship can start attending the online class any time in May. Health professionals can receive continuing education credit for taking this class. They will have to pay a small fee to get continuing credit.

We are pleased to share the news that in the March 2025 Cycle, 21 scholarships were granted to SDSU students, staff and private individuals living in San Diego. See their names below.

Recipients of The Scholarship for Plant-based Nutrition Granted by Food for Health Foundation, Inc.

Gallegos, Juan – SDSU Undergraduate student in Health Communication
Lau, Cecilia – Graduate of SDSU Undergraduate Public Health Program, working in San Francisco serving low-income non-English-speaking Chinese seniors
Mai, Tung Dinh – Graduate of SDSU Undergraduate Public Health Program, now a physician working in a national health insurance company in Texas
Caldwell, Samantha Ruiz – High-school psychology counselor at a Carmel Valley school
Madero, Maribel – SDSU university administrator in the Imperial Valley Campus
Alatriste, Esaul – Businessman in San Diego
General, Pauline – Public Health Undergraduate student at SDSU
Mora, Alejandra – Undergraduate Public Health student at SDSU
Rahman, Mahbubur – Physician and Public Health graduate student at SDSU
Rangel Batalla, Cristina – Second-year MPH student in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
Lee, Myunhee – UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) student (Epidemiology Track) in the School of Public Health at SDSU
Tran, Michelle – Public Health student at SDSU
Hemmat, Nadia – UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) student (Global Health Track) in the School of Public Health at SDSU
Pérez, Jovanny – Graduate student in Finance at SDSU and Director of Development in the College of Health and Human Services at SDSU
Barajas, Maria, Jhoana – UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) student (Health Behavior Track) in the School of Public Health at SDSU
Tickes, Karla – Spanish-speaking community health worker
Ruesga, Rosa – Spanish-speaking community health worker
Ma, Shuching – Senior citizen with a PhD in Chemistry from M.I.T. and a second degree in Oriental Medicine from California, living in Carmel Valley.
Lin, Ya Hsuan - Private physician living and practicing in Taiwan
Wan, Abigail – Third-year Undergraduate student in Public Health, SDSU
Parikh, Sonia – Fourth-year Sustainability undergraduate student at SDSU

Persons interested in the (same) class starting in May 2025 cycle should apply before April 20th, 2025. Here is the Google form for anyone to fill out if they are interested in applying for the Scholarship on Plant-based Nutrition. The course is offered in English, and a separate track is also available in Spanish for applicants who prefer to learn exclusively in Spanish. A third track, to be offered in Mandarin, is going to be rolled out sometime later this year, for those applicants who prefer to learn exclusively in Mandarin. Without the scholarship, the tuition is about $945 in English and a little less in Spanish.

Learn more about this Plant-Based Nutrition program here.